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Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism

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Description for Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FMP; HBJF; HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.

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 about the peoples and history of the Philippines in the decade or so preceding the revolution. ... Read more

Interrogating the terms “nationalist” and “nationalism,” whose definitions are usually constructed in the present and then applied to the past, Thomas offers new models for studying nationalist thought in the colonial world.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816671977
SKU
V9780816671977
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About Megan C. Thomas
Megan C. Thomas is associate professor of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Reviews for Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism
"Rigorously researched and lucidly written, Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados breaks new ground in the study of the 19th century Philippines. In particular, the book stands out in its careful attention to texts produced by the intellectuals at the center of its story. Importantly, Megan C. Thomas frames—and powerfully defamiliarizes—canonical works and authors by placing them alongside lesser-known texts, a move ... Read more

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