Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing

Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 86
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ISBN-10 : 9781040107744
ISBN-13 : 1040107745
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Book Synopsis Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing by : Jillian Loise Melchor

Download or read book Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing written by Jillian Loise Melchor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive review of all extant "Italian" chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes "Filipino" Otherness with the unique condition of "Italian" ambivalence and alterity within Europe. This book's contribution to the critical studies of travel is the opening of an analytical middle ground, highlighting the ambivalence of Italian chroniclers while acknowledging their participation in epistemological practices subsumed within the broader enterprise of conquest. Beyond the role of travel writing in colonial episteme, the book also situates the act of writing about one’s travels in instances of national character building (in Italy’s case) and in attempts of constructing a national historiography (in the Philippines' case). This manner of nuancing literary productions by the West while navigating its implications in the East, specifically, how pre-Unification “Italian” travel informed nationalist constructions in the Revolutionary Philippines, could enrich our understanding of and refract monolithic conceptions of metropole−periphery relations.


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