Transnational Philippines

Axel Gasquet is Professor of Spanish American literature and Civilization at the University Clermont Auvergne (France) and chief researcher of CNRS. Rocío Ortuño Casanova is Associate Professor at the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) and is affiliated to the University of Antwerp.

• IntroductionHispano-Filipino Literature at the Periphery of the Canon: Nationalism, Transnationalism, Postnationalism, and GenresRocío Ortuño Casanova (Universidad de Alcalá/ Universiteit Antwerpen) & Axel Gasquet (Université Clermont-Auvergne)Part ITransnational Grounds of Hispano-Filipino Literature1. The Prose of Pacification and “Spiritual Conquest” at the Origins of Philippine Literature in SpanishJohn D. Blanco (University of California, San Diego)2. Translation Is a Language of Hispanofilipino LiteratureMarlon J. Sales (University of Michigan/ University of the Philippines Diliman)3. Transpacific Tornaviajes: Toward a Filipino-Mexican Redefinition of HispanidadPaula C. Park (Wesleyan College)Part IIThe (Re)Conquest of History4. Moros and Spaniards in the Philippines: Negotiating Colonial Identity in the Margins of the Spanish EmpireAna Rodríguez (University of Iowa)5. Pedro Chirino’s Philippines Beyond the Seventeenth CenturyLuis Castellví Leukamp (University of Manchester) 6. China Was No Longer The Enemy. The Reassessment of Limahong in Hispanofilipino LiteratureRocío Ortuño Casanova (Universidad de Alcalá/ Universiteit Antwerpen)Part IIIModernity and globalization7. Finding, Framing and Forging Filipino Identities in Isabelo De Los Reyes’ El Folk-lore filipino And Adelina Gurrea’s Cuentos de JuanaKristina Escondo (Otterbein University)8. La Sonoridad del Mundo en Manila del siglo XIX. A Synaesthetic Listening to Spanish Writings in 19th-Century ManilaMeLê Yamomo (University of Amsterdam)Part IVAnti-colonial Writings in The Colonial Language9. Brazo, corazón, y lengua: Immigration and Anti-Colonial Biopoliticsin the Spanish Caribbean and the PhilippinesErnest R. Hartwell (Western Washington University)10. The Sight of The Other: An Approach to The Inversion of The Colonial Discourse in Antonio Luna’s ImpresionesCristina Guillen-Arnáiz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/ Universiteit Antwerpen)Part VNarratives of The Self and World War II11. Writing A Spanish/Filipino Life: Travel, Trauma and Disease in the Works of Antonio Pérez de Olaguer (1907-1968)David R. George (Bates College)12. The Ethnology of the Atomic: Gender, Japanese Occupation, US Empire, and the Testimonio Filipino of José Reyes’ Terrorismo y redención (1947)Sony Coráñez Bolton (Amherst College)

“Transnational Philippines is a much-needed contribution to the subfield of Spanish-language Filipino literature and culture. This is an emerging subfield and a book like this represents a major contribution toward solidifying it and toward encouraging the teaching of Spanish-language Filipino literature in college courses.”