Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing
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Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing

"Italians" Interpreting Difference

Jillian Loise Melchor

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Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing

"Italians" Interpreting Difference

Jillian Loise Melchor

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040107744
Edition
1
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Critica letteraria italiana

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The place of (“Italian”) travel writing in the colonial project
  11. 2 The place of travel writing in the mapping of national discourse
  12. 3 The “Italian” chroniclers’ motives for travel
  13. 4 The “Italian” chronicles’ journey towards publication
  14. 5 The “Filipino” native according to the “Italian” chronicler
  15. Conclusion
  16. Index