Transcultural Nationalism in Hispano-Filipino Literature

This book studies a selection of works of Philippine literature written in Spanish during the American occupation of the Philippines (1902-1946). It explores the place of Filipino nationalism in a selection of fiction and non-fiction texts by Spanish-speaking Filipino writers Jesús Balmori, Adelina Gurrea Monasterio, Paz Mendoza Guazón, and Antonio Abad. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that draws from Anthropology, History, Literary Studies, Cultural Analysis and World Literature, this book offers a comparative analysis of the position of these authors toward the cultural transformations that have taken place as a result of the Philippines' triple history of colonization (by Spain, the US, and Japan) while imagining an independent nation. Engaging with an untapped archive, this book is a relevant and timely contribution to the fields of both Filipino and Hispanic literary studies.

Seeks to reveal how selected examples of Hispano-Filipino literature from the twentieth century interact with contemporary debates and theories of nationalism and globalization Shows that the transculturation of Philippine culture as experienced, promoted and expressed by the elite of Spanish-speaking Filipinos reveals contrasting and ambiguous sentiments of mourning, embracement and betrayal towards the cultures in contact Investigates what forms of transculturation - assimilation, loss, innovation - appear in the selected literary texts and how the constant transformation of the Philippines modelled by the cultures of its various colonizers and other global actors (Mexico, Cuba or Japan, for example) interacts with the formation of a distinct national imaginary

Autorentext

Irene Villaescusa Illán is a lecturer of literature and cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam. She is the coeditor of Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization. *
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Inhalt

1. Writing the Philippines in Spanish: an introduction.- 2. Transcultural Orientalism: Re-writing the Orient from Latin America and The Philippines.- 3. Nostalgia for the Orient: Images of the Philippines in the Work of Adelina Gurrea.- 4. Travelling the Modern World: Paz Mendoza's Notas de viaje (1929).- 5. Translation Strategies in Jesús Balmori's Los Pájaros de fuego. Una novela filipina de la guerra (1945).- 6. Transcultural Nationalism in Antonio Abad's El Campeón (1940).- 7. Conclusion.