Panasiatismo y resistencia al discurso occidental en la literatura filipina en español: China como Asia por antonomasia a lo largo de dos colonizaciones

This article approaches Philippine texts in Spanish written by two generations of ilustrados, which evidence the birth and consolidation of a pan-Asian sentiment and the development of a discourse of resistance to Spain and the United States by the identification with China between 1880 and 1930. It shows that what happens in texts of different genres written by Filipino writers in Spanish, encompasses a social and political movement which departs from the traditional images of “writers with nostalgia for the Spanish colonial period” and opposed to modernity. Finally, it discusses how the exoticization of Asia and the yellow peril discourse are both based on the conception of China as a faraway country, and therefore they were subverted in the Philippines.

Publication year:2021

Keywords:A1 Journal article

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