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.

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jillian Loise Melchor
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 28.11.2025
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica
• EAN: 9781032722306
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3272230-6
• Numero di pagine: 84
• Serie: Routledge Focus on Literature
• Categorie: Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Italy, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Colonial discourse, postcolonial studies;travel narrative analysis;colonial discourse;national identity formation;epistemology of alterity;European colonialism research;Italian chroniclers in Southeast Asia, national identity formation, travel narrative analysis, Italian chroniclers in Southeast Asia, epistemology of alterity, European colonialism research