The City as Nation: Nick Joaquin's Manila, My Manila as Nationalist History

• Main Author: van der Wall, Hidde
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: colonialism; historiography; History of Manila; nationalism; Philippine literature; postcolonial memory
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss33/11; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1803/viewcontent/KK_2033_2C_202019_2C_20_26_2034_2C_202020_2012_20Regular_20Section_20__20Van_20der_20Wall.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article discusses Nick Joaquin’s Manila, My Manila (1989/1999) as an example of how his historiographical work tends to be more conventional in terms of the nationalism that dominates Philippine historiography, and has a more complex relationship to this discourse than existing analyses tend to...