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

• Main Author: van der Wall, Hidde
• Format: text
• 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
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/fine-arts-faculty-pubs/10; https://muse.jhu.edu/article/611680
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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...