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ORIENTALISTS, PROPAGANDISTS, AND ILUSTRADOS (FILIPINO SCHOLARSHIP AND THE END OF SPANISH COLONIALISM) - Softcover
"RIGOROUSLY RESEARCHED AND LUCIDLY WRITTEN, ORIENTALISTS, PROPAGANDISTS, AND ILUSTRADOS BREAKS NEW GROUND IN THE STUDY OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILIPPINES. THE BOOK STANDS OUT IN ITS CAREFUL ATTENTION TO TEXTS PRODUCED BY THE INTELLECTUALS AT THE CENTER OF ITS STORY. MEGAN C. THOMAS FRAMES - AND POWERFULLY DEFAMILIARIZES - CANONICAL WORKS AND AUTHORS BY PLACING THEM ALONGSIDE LESSER-KNOWN TEXTS, A MOVE NOT ONLY RECUPERATIVE AND INCLUSIVE BUT TRANSFORMATIVE " -- PAUL A KRAMER, AUTHOR OF "THE BLOOD OF GOVERNMENT: RACE, EMPKRE, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE PHILIPPINES" THEW WRITINGS OF A SMALL GROUP OF SCHOLARS KNOWN AS ILUSTRADOS ARE OFTEN CREDITED FOR PROVIDING THE INTELLECTUAL GROUNDING FOR THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION OF 1896. MEGAN C. THOMAS SHOWS THAT THE ILUSTRADO'S ANTICOLONIAL PROJECT OF DEFINING AND CONSTRUCTING THE "FILIPINO" INVOLVED ORIENTALIST AND RACIALIST DISCOURSES THAT ARE USEUSALLY ASCRIBED TO COLONIAL, NOT ANTICOLONIAL, PROJECTS. ACCORDING TO THOMAS, THE WORK OF THE ILUSTRADOS UNCOVERS THE SURPRSINGLY BLURRY BOUNDARY BETWEEEN NATIONALIST AND COLONIALIST THOUGHT. BY ANY MEASURE, AN EXTRAORDINARY FLOWERING OF SCHOLARLY WRITING ABOUT THE PEOPLES AND HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES OCCURRED IN THE DECADE PRECEDING THE REVOLUTION. IN REEXAMING THE WORKS OF SCHOLARS JOSE RIZAL, T.H. PARDO DE TAVERA , ISABELO DE LOS REYES, PEDRO PATERNO, PEDRO SERRANO LAKKTAW, AND MARIANO PONCE, THOMAS SITUATES THEIR TEXTS IN A BROADER ACCOUNT OF INTELLECTUAL IDEAS AND POLITICS MIGRATING AND TRANSMUTING ACROSS BORDERS. SHE REVEALS HOW THE ILUSTRADOS BOTH DREW FROM AND REFASHIONED THE TOOLS AND CONCEPTS OF ORIENTALIST SCHOLARSHIP FROM EUROPE.
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- PublisherAnvil Publishing, Inc.
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 9712733017
- ISBN 13 9789712733017
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages277
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