Longings for Manila: Projections of Imperialism and Decline in the Poems of J. Slauerhoff

The Dutch poet Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898–1936) featured Manila in three poems written in the late 1920s. These poems present the city as the decaying remnant of a deceased empire. Manila appears as a memory site of Spain’s bygone world dominance, resonates with the discourse of the “decline of the...

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Main Author:	van der Wall, Hidde
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Published:	Archīum Ateneo 2016
Subjects:	Slauerhoff Cultural Pessimism Culture And Imperialism Manila Literature Poetry Dutch Studies Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
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description	The Dutch poet Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898–1936) featured Manila in three poems written in the late 1920s. These poems present the city as the decaying remnant of a deceased empire. Manila appears as a memory site of Spain’s bygone world dominance, resonates with the discourse of the “decline of the West,” and bears parallels to an image of a decaying Dutch empire. The city functions as a screen against which cultural images derived from the author’s personal European context are projected: cultural pessimism and colonial decline.
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Longings for Manila: Projections of Imperialism and Decline in the Poems of J. Slauerhoff

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