Where are your Literary Giants? Examination of the Production and Reception of Cebuano Literature, 1975-2015

摘要

This article examines the logic of the Philippine literary publishing industry. Similar to other formerly colonized nations, the country's publishing industry is controlled by a few publishers based in the capital, Metro Manila, resulting in the marginalization of regional writing. Authors outside the borders of the metropolitan space experience an intellectual dependency on the Manila-centric publishing industry. This article, thus, seeks to analyze the consequences of this dependency on the publishing trends in regional writing, using Cebuano literature as case study.