00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-1686042739784958125 Buklod 20241008154519.0 m | | | ta 241008t20222021enk rb |001 0|eng d 9780755640393 (PB) BC-74978 Mind Mover Publishing House Php4,178.00 The UP Baguio Library DMLF BAG rda eng DS 689 M2 S95 2022 Sykes, Tom author. Imagining Manila literature, empire and orientalism Tom Sykes. London Bloomsbury Academic 2022. ©2021. ix, 205 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "First published in Great Britain in 2021"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-200) and index. Introduction: Manilaism as an Orientalism -- Chapter 1: ‘A seething cauldron of evil’: hispanophobia, Manila-as-hell and third world blues -- Chapter 2: ‘Known to all students of history’: adventure, imperial mythology and Orientalist rhetoric in Manilaism of the US conquest of the Philippines -- Chapter 3: ‘The pious new name of the musket’: language, gender, race and benevolent assimilation -- Chapter 4: ‘She can take on American ideas’: desire, capital and flawed simulation in twentieth-century Manilaism -- Chapter 5: The making of a supranational stereotype: western constructions of the Chinese in Manila and beyond -- Chapter 6: Call of Duterte: cacique despotism and western (neo)liberal crisis -- Chapter 7: Towards an anti-Manilaism -- Conclusion: liberal Orientalism versus humanism, socialism and internationalism. "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 History. Orientalism in literature Philippines. Manila (Philippines) History. FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN DS 689 M2 S95 2022 Book