TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melchor,Jillian Loise
TI  - Colonial Philippines in Italian travel writing: "Italians" interpreting difference 
T2  - Routledge focus on literature
SN  - 9781032721927
AV  - PQ4053.T75 M45 2024
U1  - 959.9/02 23/eng/20240525
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Travelers' writings, Italian
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Other (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Altérité dans la littérature
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Descriptions et voyages
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Critiques littéraires
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - "Routledge Focus"--from cover; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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 Philippine 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"--
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/171148
ER  -