{"product_id":"orientalists-propagandists-and-ilustrados-filipino-scholarship-and-the-end-of-spanish-colonialism-paperback-softback-9780816671977","title":"Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados; Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816671977","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOrientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFilipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMegan C. Thomas (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816671977\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 February 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.362 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rigorously researched and lucidly written,\u003ci\u003e Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados \u003c\/i\u003ebreaks new ground in the study of the 19th century Philippines. In particular, the book stands out in its careful attention to texts produced by the intellectuals at the center of its story. Importantly, Megan C. Thomas frames-and powerfully defamiliarizes-canonical works and authors by placing them alongside lesser-known texts, a move that is not only recuperative and inclusive, but transformative.\" -Paul A. Kramer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Megan C. Thomas’s attention to the dissonances between writers of the late nineteenth century is as important as her observation of the emergent nationalism that was their legacy.\" -Rosalind Carmel Morris, Columbia University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe writings of a small group of scholars known as the \u003ci\u003eilustrados\u003c\/i\u003e are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. Megan C. Thomas shows that the \u003ci\u003eilustrados\u003c\/i\u003e’ anticolonial project of defining and constructing the “Filipino” involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial projects, not anticolonial ones. According to Thomas, the work of the \u003ci\u003eilustrados\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the surprisingly blurry boundary between nationalist and colonialist thought. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy any measure, there was an extraordinary flowering of scholarly writing about the peoples and history of the Philippines in the decade or so preceding the revolution. In reexamining the works of the scholars JosÉ Rizal, Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes, Pedro Paterno, Pedro Serrano Laktaw, and Mariano Ponce, Thomas situates their writings in a broader account of intellectual ideas and politics migrating and transmuting across borders. She reveals how the \u003ci\u003eilustrados\u003c\/i\u003e both drew from and refashioned the tools and concepts of Orientalist scholarship from Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterrogating the terms “nationalist” and “nationalism,” whose definitions are usually constructed in the present and then applied to the past, Thomas offers new models for studying nationalist thought in the colonial world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Worldly Colonials: \u003ci\u003eIlustrado\u003c\/i\u003e Thought and Historiography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Locating Orientalism and the Anthropological Sciences: The Limits of Post-Colonial Critiques\u003cbr\u003e2. The Uses of Ethnology: Thinking Filipino with “Race” and “Civilization” \u003cbr\u003e3. Practicing Folklore: Universal Science, Local Authenticity, and Political Critique\u003cbr\u003e4. Is ‘K’ a Foreign Agent? Philology as Anti-Colonial Politics\u003cbr\u003e5. Lessons in History: The Decline of Spanish Rule, and Revolutionary Strategy\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Politics and the Methods of Scholarly Disciplines \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570078740760,"sku":"9780816671977","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/orientalists-propagandists-and-ilustrados-filipino-scholarship-and-the-end-of-spanish-colonialism-paperback-softback-9780816671977","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}