00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685523046124787769 Buklod 20230613132425.0 m |o d | ta 230613t2021 uik r |||| u|eng d 9781788318310 DMLF rda eng DMLUC DS 689 M2 S95 2021 Sykes, Tom author. Imagining Manila literature, empire and orientalism Tom Sykes. London I.B. Tauris 2021. 205 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "First published in Great Britain in 2021"--Title page verso. "The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other events. This book examines British and American writing on the city, situating these representations within scholarship on empire, orientalism and US, Asian and European political history. Through analysis of novels, memoirs, travelogues and journalism written about Manila by Westerners since the early eighteenth century, Tom Sykes builds a picture of Western attitudes towards the city and the wider Philippines, and the mechanics by which these came to dominate the discourse. This study uncovers to what extent Western literary tropes and representational models have informed understandings of the Philippines, in the West and elsewhere, and the types of counter-narrative which have emerged in the Philippines in response to them."-- Provided by publisher Orientalism. Literature. Orientalism in literature. Manila (Philippines) History. FI UPD DMLF DS 689 M2 S95 2021 Book