Orientalists, propagandists, and ilustrados [[electronic resource] ] : Filipino scholarship and the end of Spanish colonialism / / Megan C. Thomas
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Thomas Megan C (Megan Christine), <1970->
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| Titolo: |
Orientalists, propagandists, and ilustrados [[electronic resource] ] : Filipino scholarship and the end of Spanish colonialism / / Megan C. Thomas
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8009599 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethnology - Philippines |
| Ethnohistory - Philippines | |
| Philippine literature - 19th century - History and criticism | |
| Orientalism - Philippines - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Philippines Colonization |
| Philippines Historiography | |
| Spain Foreign relations Philippines | |
| Philippines Foreign relations Spain | |
| Spain Colonies Asia | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Worldly Colonials: Ilustrado Thought and Historiography; 1. Locating Orientalism and the Anthropological Sciences: The Limits of Postcolonial Critiques; 2. The Uses of Ethnology: Thinking Filipino with "Race" and "Civilization"; 3. Practicing Folklore: Universal Science, Local Authenticity, and Political Critique; 4. Is "K" a Foreign Agent? Philology as Anticolonial Politics; 5. Lessons in History: The Decline of Spanish Rule, and Revolutionary Strategy; Conclusion: Politics and the Methods of Scholarly Disciplines; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E |
| FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. Megan C. Thomas shows that the ilustrados ' anticolonial project of defining and constructing the "Filipino" involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial projects, not anticolonial ones. According to Thomas, the work of the ilustrados uncovers the surprisingly blurry boundary between nationalist and colonialist thought. By any measure, there was an extraordinary flowering of scholarly writing abou |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Orientalists, propagandists, and ilustrados |
| ISBN: | 1-4529-4701-5 |
| 0-8166-8014-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812832403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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