Orientalists, propagandists, and ilustrados : Filipino scholarship and the end of Spanish colonialism / Megan C. Thomas.
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 Orienta...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of Minnesota Press,
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816680146 0816680140 9781452947013 1452947015 |