Eastern Visayas literature includes works written in Waray and Cebuano by local writers. It documents poetic forms like candu, haya, ambahan, and balac that were first recorded by a Spanish Jesuit priest in the 1600s. These forms describe early narratives and a poetic love exchange called balac or amoral during the Spanish period and ismayling during the American occupation, with some reinvented versions expressing anti-imperialist sentiments with the woman as the motherland and the man as a patriot.

1. EASTERN VISAYAS
LITERATURE

2. EASTERN VISAYAS
LITERATURE
•Literature written in Waray and Cebuano by the writers
in the region
•Waray Literature that has been collected,recorded and
documented by scholars and researcher
•When a spanish Jesult by the name of Fr. Ignatio
Francisco Alzina documented the poetic forms such as
candu,haya, ambahan, canagon, bical, balac,siday and
awit.

3. •He also described the susumatan and pasong early forms of
narratives
•Balac is a poetic love joust between man and a woman
•During the Spanish period the balac was called the amoral
•During the American occupation is was renamed ismayling a
term delivered from the English word “smile”
•The same balac and ismayling has been reinvented to express
anti –imperalist sentiments where the woman represents the
motherland and the man,the patriot who professes his love of
country

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