"Asylum of Incurably Lazy and Depraved Men": The Philippines as a Space of Degenerate Masculinity in the Late Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán

• Main Author: Estevan, Susana Bardavío
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Colonial representation of the Philippines; fin-de-siècle Spanish literature; Emilia Pardo Bazán; Spanish imperialism; gender; race; and nation in fin-de-siècle Spain
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss37/13; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1884/viewcontent/KK_2037_2C_202021_2013_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Spanish_20Literature_20on_20the_20Philippines_20__20Estevan.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the presence of the Philippines in Spanish political discourses and media gradually intensified. This was caused by an increase in migration to the archipelago and by the importance that the colonies acquired in the imperialist discourse, which combined...