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

• Main Author: Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2016
• Subjects: tropics; climate; disasters; racism; indolence; nationalism; Asian History; History
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/7; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=history-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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...