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Intercolonial Intimacies - (Illuminations) by Paula C Park (Hardcover)
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- As a nation, the Philippines has a colonial history with both Spain and the United States.
- About the Author: Paula C. Park is assistant professor of Latin American studies and Spanish at Wesleyan University.
- 260 Pages
- History, Latin America
- Series Name: Illuminations
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About the Book
A New Approach to Transpacific Studies Linking the Literature and Thought of the Americas and the PhilippinesBook Synopsis
As a nation, the Philippines has a colonial history with both Spain and the United States. Its links to the Americas are longstanding and complex. Intercolonial Intimacies interrogates the legacy of the Spanish Empire and the cultural hegemony of the United States by analyzing the work of twentieth-century Filipino and Latin/o American writers and diplomats who often read one other and imagined themselves as kin. The relationships between the Philippines and the former colonies of the Spanish Empire in the Americas were strengthened throughout the twentieth century by the consolidation of a discourse of shared, even familiar, identity. This distinct inherited intercolonial bond was already disengaged from their former colonizer and further used to defy new forms of colonialism. By examining the parallels and points of contact between these Filipino and Latin American writers, Paula C. Park elaborates on the "intercolonial intimacies" that shape a transpacific understanding of coloniality and latinidad.Review Quotes
It is a real pleasure to read the careful analysis and brilliant close reading of some of the sources that Paula Park has chosen for her book, especially the poetry. Park's book is a must read for scholars of the Philippines, Latin American studies and colonial and postcolonial studies.-- "Latin American Literary Review"
No other scholarly work situates the contending discourses of Spanish American modernismo, Hispanismo, and the (Anglo) Sajonismo of US colonial policies of 'benevolent assimilation' in Philippine literature and politics as comprehensively and eruditely as Park's Intercolonial Intimacies. Drawing on colonial history and literature, Latin American cultural theory, (US) empire studies, and the multiple legacies of world-systems theory, Park reawakens the forgotten ties between writers and intellectuals speaking across oceans and prepares us to grasp at once the Latin(x) contribution to transpacific studies and the Philippine contribution to Hispanophone literature.--John D. Blanco, University of California, San Diego
Park's fascinating book makes a major contribution to the emerging field of transpacific studies by adding the often-neglected Pacific Latin American region in its anti-imperialist dialogue with the Philippines. Avoiding romanticization, she offers a genealogy of how, from 1898 to 1964, both Filipino and Latin American intellectuals addressed, through appropriated discourses of latinidad and hispanidad, transpacific links among former Spanish colonies in order to collectively resist US imperialism.--Ignacio López-Calvo, University of California, Merced
About the Author
Paula C. Park is assistant professor of Latin American studies and Spanish at Wesleyan University.Dimensions (Overall): 8.3 Inches (H) x 5.7 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 260
Series Title: Illuminations
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Latin America
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Paula C Park
Language: English
Street Date: April 5, 2022
TCIN: 92684892
UPC: 9780822947097
Item Number (DPCI): 247-22-2022
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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