Homesickness and the Filipino Nation: The Emotional Experience of Propagandists, 1889–1895

• Main Author: Wani-Obias, Rhodalyn C.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol70/iss4/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/1139/viewcontent/Homesickness_20and_20the_20Filipino_20Nation_20_5Bvol._2070_20no._204_20_282022_29_20481_E2_80_93516_5D.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This study focuses on the emotional experience of homesickness of propagandists and relates it to the birthing of the Filipino nation in the late nineteenth century. I show that these young migrant men straddled two worlds, where both modern ideas of individualism and “parochial” sentiments of community existed together. Second, I demonstrate the change in the migrants’ gaze as it slowly began to include the larger entity of the nation. In the end, I argue that these points illustrate tensions found in a nascent nation as Filipinos navigated their emotions within the context of colonialism and modernity.KEYWORDS: MARCELO DEL PILAR • EXILE • HISTORY OF EMOTIONS • NATIONALISM • PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT