Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish approaches literature that has been forgotten or neglected in studies on other literatures in Spanish due, in part, to the fact that today Spanish is no longer spoken in the Philippines or in Asia. However, isolation has not always been the case, and 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 studies how this literary production stemmed from its relationship with other cultures, literature, and arts. It attempts to break this literature's isolation and show how it is part of the broad literary system of literature written in Spanish.

Yet Transnational Philippines 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. Its chapters 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.

Author: Rocío Ortuño Casanova
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 02/27/2024
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.87h x 6.03w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780472039616

About the Author
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.