Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits of the Climate in the Late Nineteenth Century

In contrast to the literature’s dominant focus on Western constructions of tropicality, this article explores representations of the tropics by the colonized, specifically the climatological conditions of the Philippines as portrayed in the late nineteenth century by the Europe-based native intellec...

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Main Author:	Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
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Published:	Archīum Ateneo 2016
Subjects:	tropics climate disasters racism indolence nationalism Asian History History
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spelling	ph-ateneo-arc.history-faculty-pubs-10062020-06-15T08:28:32Z Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits of the Climate in the Late Nineteenth Century Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr In contrast to the literature’s dominant focus on Western constructions of tropicality, this article explores representations of the tropics by the colonized, specifically the climatological conditions of the Philippines as portrayed in the late nineteenth century by the Europe-based native intellectuals known as ilustrados. Their anticolonial sentiment was intertwined with visceral estrangement from Spain and idealized views of the tropics, which reversed the colonizers’ racial-geographic prejudice and asserted an identity as a civilizable tropical people capable of genius. Rizal’s return visit to the homeland in 1887, however, made him agree with the Spanish premise about the climate in order to argue that colonial rule was the greater disaster. 2016-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/7 https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=history-faculty-pubs History Department Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo tropics climate disasters racism indolence nationalism Asian History History
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spellingShingle	tropics climate disasters racism indolence nationalism Asian History History Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits of the Climate in the Late Nineteenth Century
description	In contrast to the literature’s dominant focus on Western constructions of tropicality, this article explores representations of the tropics by the colonized, specifically the climatological conditions of the Philippines as portrayed in the late nineteenth century by the Europe-based native intellectuals known as ilustrados. Their anticolonial sentiment was intertwined with visceral estrangement from Spain and idealized views of the tropics, which reversed the colonizers’ racial-geographic prejudice and asserted an identity as a civilizable tropical people capable of genius. Rizal’s return visit to the homeland in 1887, however, made him agree with the Spanish premise about the climate in order to argue that colonial rule was the greater disaster.
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author	Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
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title	Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits of the Climate in the Late Nineteenth Century
title_short	Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits of the Climate in the Late Nineteenth Century
title_full	Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits of the Climate in the Late Nineteenth Century
title_fullStr	Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits of the Climate in the Late Nineteenth Century
title_full_unstemmed	Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits of the Climate in the Late Nineteenth Century
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publisher	Archīum Ateneo
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Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits of the Climate in the Late Nineteenth Century

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