The Appeal of the Philippines: Spain, Cultural Representation and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781138244245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 150 str.

Jose Diaz-Rodriguez

Opis

This book examines the different means through which Spain has revisited its ex-colony - the Philippines - since 2000. Focusing on several major exhibitions organised in the period 1998-2017, the ‘poetics’ and ‘politics’ of Spanish representations of the Philippines are critically examined.

O autorze

José Miguel Díaz Rodríguez is a Lecturer at Massey University of New Zealand – Aotearoa. He holds a PhD in Spanish Cultural Studies, for which he received an Arts and Humanities Research Council Award at the University of Leeds (UK). His research interests include Spanish and Filipino cultural studies, cultural representation, post colonialism, intercultural exchanges, and the promotion of culture in transnational contexts.