"Portions of chapter 4 have been previously published as "K" Is for De-Kolonization: Anti-Colonial Nationalism and Orthographic Reform," Comparative Studies in Society and History 49 (2007)." --Verso of title page

"This edition has been published by arrangement with the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401-2520, USA http://www.upress.umn.edu" --Verso of title page

"With an introduction by Caroline S. Hau" -- Cover

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing the intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. Megan C. Thomas shows that the illustrados' anti-colonial project of defining and constructing the "Filipino" involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial, not anti-colonial, projects. According to Thomas, the work of the ilustrados uncovers the surprisingly blurry boundary between nationalist and colonialist thought.
By any measure, an extraordinary flowering of scholarly writing about the peoples and history of the Philippines occurred in the decade preceding the revolution. In reexamining the works of scholars Jose Rizal, T.H. Prado de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes, Pedro Paterno, Pedro Serrano Laktaw, and Mariano Ponce, Thomas situates their texts in a broader account of intellectual ideas and politics migrating and transmuting across borders. She reveals how the ilustrados both drew from and refashioned the tools and concepts of Orientalist scholarship from Europe." -- Provided by publisher

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