Tongues of Trauma: Narrating through Code-Switching Typhoon Haiyan in Daryll Delgado's Remains.

This article analyzes the deliberate use of code-switching in Daryll Delgado's 2019 novel *Remains*, which depicts the traumatic aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. It argues that the novel's alternation among Filipino, Waray, and English languages deepens character development, setting, and narrative structure to express trauma that resists singular linguistic representation. The novel foregrounds the Waray language, historically marginalized within Philippine literature, as a vital medium for conveying local experiences and collective memory, while also addressing broader themes of imperial and environmental violence. Through code-switching, *Remains* negotiates the complexities of trauma, memory, and cultural identity, situating Tacloban and its surrounding regions as a linguistically and historically layered contact zone that challenges monolingual literary conventions.