| Description |
1 online resource ( ix, 205 page) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Manilaism as an Orientalism -- Chapter 1. 'A Seething Cauldron of Evil': Hispanophobia, Manila-as-hell and third world blues -- Chapter 2. 'Known to All Students of History': Adventure, imperial mythology and Orientalist rhetoric in Manilaism of the US conquest of the Philippines -- Chapter 3. 'The Pious New Name of the Musket': Language, gender, race and benevolent assimilation -- Chapter 4. 'She Can Take on American Ideas': Desire, capital and flawed simulation in twentieth-century Manilaism -- Chapter 5. The making of a supranational stereotype: Western constructions of the Chinese in Manila and Beyond -- Chapter 6. Call of Duterte: Cacique despotism and Western (neo)liberal crisis -- Chapter 7. Towards an anti-Manilaism -- Conclusion: Liberal orientalism versus genuine humanism, socialism and internationalism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Orientalism
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| SUBJECT |
Manila (Philippines) -- History
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Manila (Philippines) -- In literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bloomsbury (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0755602870 |
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9780755602889 |
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0755602889 |
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9780755602872 |
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