Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

Transnational Philippines explores forgotten or neglected Philippine literature in Spanish, highlighting its cultural encounters and its place in the broader literary system. It challenges traditional literary genres and proposes a postnational approach to Spanish-language Philippine literature, aiming to break its isolation and contribute to a global conception of the Hispanophone.

Format: Hardback
Length: 302 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2024
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press

Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish is a groundbreaking work that explores the rich and diverse literary heritage of the Philippines written in Spanish. Despite the fact that Spanish is no longer spoken in the Philippines or in Asia, this literature has been largely forgotten or neglected in studies on other literatures in Spanish. However, by omitting Philippine literature in Spanish from the picture of world literatures and Spanish-language literatures, the landscape of these disciplines is incomplete. Transnational Philippines seeks to break this literatures isolation and show how it is part of the broad literary system of literature written in Spanish. It also questions the constraints of traditional literary genres in order to make room for Philippine texts and other colonial and postcolonial texts, so that those texts can be taken into consideration in literary studies. The chapters of the book elaborate on the problems surrounding the cultural and identity relations of the Philippines with other regions and the literary nature of Philippine texts. By addressing the need for a postnational approach to Spanish-language Philippine literature, the book challenges the Spain/Latin America dichotomy existing in Spanish language literary studies and leans toward a global conception of the Hispanophone.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780472133505