Outsiders on the Inside: Mestizaje and the Economics of Colonial Desire in Sinibaldo de Mas and Francisco de Paula Entrala

• Main Author: Tolliver, Joyce
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Francisco de Paula Entrala; Sinibaldo de Mas; Informe secreto; mestizaje; costumbrismo; indigeneity; race; gender
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss37/16; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1887/viewcontent/KK_2037_2C_202021_2016_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Spanish_20Literature_20on_20the_20Philippines_20__20Tolliver.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Throughout the last twenty-five years of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, Spaniards published essays and fiction that echoed the view that the colonial project was doomed to failure, clearly expressed in Sinibaldo de Mas’s 1843 Informe secreto (Secret Report). Less attention is paid to n...