Longings for Manila projections of imperialism and decline in the poems of J. Slauerhoff
The Dutch poet Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898–1936) featured Manila in three poems written in the late 1920s. These poems present the city as the decaying remnant of a deceased empire. Manila appears as a memory site of Spain’s bygone world dominance, resonates with the discourse of the “decline of the...
| Publicado no: | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 64, no. 1 (Mar. 2016), 103-125 |
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| Idioma: | English |
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