Longings for Manila: Projections of Imperialism and Decline in the Poems of J. Slauerhoff

The Dutch poet Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898–1936) featured Manila in three poems written in the late 1920s. These poems present the city as the decaying remnant of a deceased empire. Manila appears as a memory site of Spain’s bygone world dominance, resonates with the discourse of the “decline of the...

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Main Author: van der Wall, Hidde; Ateneo
Format: text
Published: Archīum Ateneo 2016
Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol64/iss1/5
https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4121/viewcontent/6258.pdf
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Institution: Ateneo De Manila University