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To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. vi Contents Acknowledgements viii Introduction: Manilaism as an Orientalism 1 ' A Seething Cauldron of Evil': Hispanophobia, Manila-as-hell and third world blues 2 'Known to All Students of History': Adventure, imperial mythology and Orientalist rhetoric in Manilaism of the US conquest of the Philippines 3 'The Pious New Name of the Musket': Language, gender, race and benevolent assimilation 4 'She Can Take on American Ideas': Desire, capital and flawed simulation in twentieth-century Manilaism 5 The making of a supranational stereotype: Western constructions of the Chinese in Manila and Beyond 6 Call of Duterte: Cacique despotism and Western (neo)liberal crisis 7 Towards an anti-Manilaism Conclusion: Liberal Orientalism versus humanism, socialism and internationalism Notes 141 Bibliography 181 Index 201 Others across the world have made important contributions. Thank you Gene Alcantara for teaching me so much about the expatriate Filipino community in the UK. Filipinos in the Philippines who kindly shared their contacts with me and suggested research pathways include Douglas Cand

Who reads Imagining Manila : Literature, Empire and Orientalism?

Author

Tom Sykes

Publisher

I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780755602889

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Humanities