Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964 (Pitt Illuminations)

As a nation, the Philippines has a colonial history with both Spain and the United States. Its links to the Americas are longstanding and complex. Intercolonial Intimacies interrogates the legacy of the Spanish Empire and the cultural hegemony of the United States by analyzing the work of twentieth-century Filipino and Latin/o American writers and diplomats who often read one other and imagined themselves as kin. The relationships between the Philippines and the former colonies of the Spanish Empire in the Americas were strengthened throughout the twentieth century by the consolidation of a discourse of shared, even familiar, identity. This distinct inherited intercolonial bond was already disengaged from their former colonizer and further used to defy new forms of colonialism. By examining the parallels and points of contact between these Filipino and Latin American writers, Paula C. Park elaborates on the "intercolonial intimacies" that shape a transpacific understanding of coloniality and latinidad. "As a nation, the Philippines has a colonial history with both Spain and the United States. Its links to the Americas are longstanding and complex. Intercolonial Intimacies interrogates the legacy of the Spanish Empire and the cultural hegemony of the United States by analyzing the work of twentieth-century Filipino and Latin/o American writers and diplomats who often read one other and imagined themselves as kin. The relationships between the Philippines and the former colonies of the Spanish Empire in the Americas were strengthened throughout the twentieth century by the consolidation of a discourse of shared, even familiar, identity. This distinct inherited intercolonial bond was already disengaged from their former colonizer and further used to defy new forms of colonialism. By examining the parallels and points of contact between these Filipino and Latin American writers, Paula C. Park elaborates on the "intercolonial intimacies" that shape a transpacific understanding of coloniality and latinidad"-- Provided by publisher Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 A Note on Language 12 Introduction. Residual Intercolonial Intimacies across the “Hispanic” Pacific 16 Chapter 1. 1898, Modernismo, and the Detours of the “Latin Race” 41 Chapter 2. The Transpacific Reach of US Latinidad 76 Chapter 3. On the Globality of Mexico and the Manila Galleon 106 Chapter 4. Redefining Hispanidad and the Colonial Past from an Intercolonial Perspective 133 Conclusion. Reimagining (Third) World Literature between Latin America and the Philippines 159 Notes 166 Bibliography 220 Index 246