Manilaner’s Holocaust Meets Manileños’ Colonisation: Cross-Traumatic Affiliations and Postcolonial Considerations in Trauma Studies

• Main Author: Martin, Jocelyn
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
• Subjects: Manilaner; Manileños; Holocaust; Quezon; cross-traumatic affiliation; Japanese Occupation; U.S. colonisation; postcolonial theory; Trauma Studies; Philippines; Asian History; Comparative Literature; History
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/119; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1118&context=english-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

After interrogating the (non-)referential status of the Holocaust for Asians, this essay examines Frank Ephraim’s Escape to Manila and Juergen Goldhagen’s Manila Memories. In particular, cross-traumatic affiliation is studied between two groups of people: the Manilaner and the Manileños: the former...