Jose Rizal, the Philippines, and Greco-Roman Antiquity

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-73793-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Classics and the Postcolonial

This volume is the first extended investigation of the classicism of José Rizal (1861-1896), the de facto national hero of the Philippines, and explores how Greco-Roman antiquity was harnessed by Rizal and other Philippine artists and thinkers at the end of the Spanish colonial period.

Rizal lived at a crucial juncture in his nation’s history, and Zanker argues that Rizal’s writing and thought represents a rich and evolving example of late-colonial classical reception. The volume illustrates how the forms of knowledge associated with Greco-Roman antiquity were put to creative and powerful new tasks in the attempts of Rizal and his contemporaries to redefine the relationship between Spain and its most distant colony. It not only explores the presence of Greco-Roman antiquity in Rizal’s novels, but also his lesser-known works in a roughly chronological order. Besides covering the entirety of Rizal’s surviving works, Zanker considers the role of antiquity in the paintings of Juan Luna and in Rizal’s parsing of his friendship with his Austrian collaborator, Ferdinand Blumentritt.

José Rizal, the Philippines, and Greco-Roman Antiquity is of interest to students and scholars of Classics, particularly Classical Reception, and the colonial-era Philippines, as well as Latin American Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and Postcolonial Studies more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zanker, Andreas T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Portugiesische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1. Biography

Chapter 2. Education

Chapter 3. Early Writing

Chapter 4. Rizal in Europe

Chapter 5. Rizal’s Novels

Chapter 6. Journalism and Historical Writing

Chapter 7. Rizal’s Final Period

Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas T. Zanker is a lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Horace (Brill Research Perspectives in Classical Poetry) (2024), Metaphor in Homer: Time, Speech, and Thought (2019), and Greek and Latin Expressions of Meaning (2016).