00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862196943 Buklod 20200905181446.0 g||| | || || ta 200905s2016 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00037796905 eng ARTICLE-047 Aguilar, Filomeno V. Jr. author. Romancing tropicality ilustrado portraits of the climate in the late nineteenth century Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. 2016. pages [417]-454 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-454). In contrast to the literature's dominant focus on Western constructions of tropicality, this article explores representations of the tropics by the colonized, specifically the climatological conditions of the Philippines as portrayed in the late nineteenth century by the Europe-based native intellectuals known as ilustrados. Their anticolonial sentiment was intertwined with visceral estrangement from Spain and idealized views of the tropics, which reversed the colonizers' racial-geographic prejudice and asserted an identity as a civilizable tropical people capable of genius. Rizal's return visit to the homeland in 1887, however, made him agree with the Spanish premise about the climate in order to argue that colonial rule was the greater disaster. Philippines Climate. Natural disasters Social aspects. Philippines History. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 64, nos. 3-4 (September 2016-December 2016), 417-454. Available for the University of the Philippines Baguio. Click here to access https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_43WAK48DQvqBNJS_moKT-ON4LYZOQKE/view?usp=sharing Available for the University of the Philippines Baguio via Project Muse. Click here to access https://muse.jhu.edu/article/634236/pdf (viewed 07 September 2020) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-047 Analytics