Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing - Italians Interpreting Difference

The first comprehensive review of all extant 'Italian' chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes 'Filipino' Otherness with the unique condition of 'Italian' ambivalence and alterity within Europe.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The place of ("Italian") travel writing in the colonial project
2. The place of travel writing in the mapping of national discourse
3. The "Italian" chroniclers' motives for travel
4. The "Italian" chronicles' journey towards publication
5. The "Filipino" native according to the "Italian" chronicler
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Jillian Loise Melchor is Assistant Professor and Italian Section Coordinator of the Department of European Languages of the University of the Philippines Diliman. She was a former faculty member of the Division of Humanities of UP Visayas where she taught Spanish, literary translation, and cultural studies. Her master's degree in multilingual cultural studies was funded by the Erasmus Mundus academic council and was obtained from the Universities of Sheffield (UK), Bergamo (Italy), and Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She is currently doing her doctoral research on the decolonisation of creole language heritage as an EDUFI (Finnish National Agency for Education) fellow at the University of Helsinki's Department of Languages. She is a published literary translator and has international, peer-reviewed publications examining the link between language and power in fields such as multilingual heritage, language education policy, and postcolonial linguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Jillian Loise Melchor
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032722306
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3272230-6
• No. of pages: 84
• Series: Routledge Focus on Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Italy, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature