Joel Donato Ching Jacob’s Wing of the Locust presents a rare achievement in Filipino writing in English. The Asian Book Award winner deviates from the tired path taken by so many would-be texts that attempted to reimagine pre-Hispanic Philippines. Wing of the Locust avoided the pitfalls of romanticizing the Filipino precolonial past by utilizing alternative geography and cultural coordinates to defamiliarize and bisect what we … Continue reading The Mambabarang in Our Midst: Pre-Hispanic Ma’I in Wing of the Locust