{"product_id":"imagining-manila-literature-empire-and-orientalism-paperback","title":"Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom Sykes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other events. This book examines British and American writing on the city, situating these representations within scholarship on empire, orientalism and US, Asian and European political history. Through analysis of novels, memoirs, travelogues and journalism written about Manila by Westerners since the early eighteenth century, Tom Sykes builds a picture of Western attitudes towards the city and the wider Philippines, and the mechanics by which these came to dominate the discourse. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This study uncovers to what extent Western literary tropes and representational models have informed understandings of the Philippines, in the West and elsewhere, and the types of counter-narrative which have emerged in the Philippines in response to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Sykes\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Realm of the Punisher, \u003c\/i\u003e and his essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eA Global History of Literature and the Environment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSupernatural Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Social Identities and Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. His journalism has appeared in\u003ci\u003e Private Eye, New Statesman, The Scotsman, The Telegraph, New Internationalist, Monocle, New African, Red Pepper, South East Asia Globe\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous print and digital media around the world\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52630405775667,"sku":"9780755640393","price":84.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dlJ6Y0pHMzlaMVVqMGg4NzR6RVNlQT09.webp?v=1762156715","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/imagining-manila-literature-empire-and-orientalism-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}