00000cab a22000003a 4500 UP-1685675941123975716 Buklod 20231008011923.0 a r |||| u| ta 200305s xx d | ||r ||||| || UPVTC eng Aguilar, Filomeno V., Jr. author Romancing tropicality Ilustrado portraits of the climate in the late nineteenth century Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr. Quezon City Ateneo de Manila University 2016. pp. 417-454. "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 colonial sentiment was intertwined with visceral estrangement from Spain an 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." Disasters. Tropics. Climate. Philippine studies : historical and ethnographic viewpoints 64, 3-4 (Sept-Dec 2016). FI UPTAC UPTAC Article