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Children of the Ever-Changing Moon
Young Moro Writers’ Anthology
Edited by Gutierrez Mangansakan II
- Publisher
- Anvil Publishing
- Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 119
- Availability
- Out of print
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
About the book
Essays by young Moro writers from across the region, the first anthology of its kind, edited by a Maguindanaon filmmaker.
This was the first anthology of essays by young Moro writers. Anvil published it in 2007, at 119 pages, and launched it on November 29 that year with Ambeth Ocampo, chairman of the National Historical Institute, as guest. Anvil's statement said the writers reflect on identity, religion, relationships, loss, tradition and change.
It was edited by Gutierrez "Teng" Mangansakan II, a Maguindanaon filmmaker and writer, who also wrote for it. The other 15 essayists were Ayesah Abubakar, Pearlsha Abubakar, Sarah Matalam-Alvarez, Mucha-Shim Quiling Arquiza, Nefertari Al-Raschid-Arsad, Allyson Banga-an, Ayesha Merdeka Alonto-Datu Ramos, Sittie Jamairah Disomimba, Samira Ali Gutoc, Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman, Loren Hallilah Lao, Zainudin Malang, Farida D. Mending, Gonaranao B. Musor and Sahara Alia Jauhali Silongan.
Ricardo de Ungria, a retired professor of UP Mindanao, looking back in 2025, finds in the essays conflicts between a traditional household and a modern daughter, the alienation of an uncommon name or way of praying, the need to prove oneself twice as worthy as a non-Moro, and women seeking a place at peace talks. Mangansakan followed it with Rays of the Invisible Light in 2015 and Panumtuman in 2024.
From mindanews.com, mindanews.com, journal.usep.edu.ph, archive.org, filipinaslibrary.org.ph.
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