Drawing Spaniards in the Philippines: Displacement, Brutalization, and the Dissident Eye of Ignacio del Villar

• Main Author: Casanova, Rocío Ortuño
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Bhabha; colonial representation; Fil-Hispanic culture; Philippine cartoons; Spanish cartoonists; Spanish colonization of the Philippines
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss33/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1794/viewcontent/KK_2033_2C_202019_2C_20_26_2034_2C_202020_202_20Regular_20Section_20__20Casanova.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article explores the Spanish colonization of the Philippines and their colonial culture and society as portrayed in the comic strips by Ignacio del Villar, a Spanish cartoonist who drew for Philippine colonial magazines in Spanish. His pictures, whose principal audience was the Spanish-speaking...