Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing
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 an...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1711482026-01-30T12:19:38Z Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing Melchor, Jillian Loise postcolonial studies travel narrative analysis colonial discourse national identity formation epistemology of alterity European colonialism research Italian chroniclers in Southeast Asia thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000::DSBH5 Literary studies: postcolonial literature 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. 2026-01-30T12:19:37Z 2026-01-30T12:19:37Z 2026-01-23T14:13:04Z 2024 book ONIX_20260123T150742_9781040107690_12 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109842 9781040107690 9781032722320 9781040107744 9781032722306 9781032721927 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/171148 eng Routledge Focus on Literature open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109842/1/9781040107690.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781032722320 10.4324/9781032722320 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 d1f8ff33-f574-43fb-bc41-df3d7b08492f 9781040107690 9781032722320 9781040107744 9781032722306 9781032721927 Routledge 92 Oxford [...] open access |
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