Love, passion and patriotism : sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement, 1882-1892 / Raquel A.G. Reyes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reyes, Raquel A. G.

Series:

Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philippine literature.

Sex.

History.

Propaganda.

Philippines--History--1812-1898.

Philippines.

Propaganda--Philippines--History--19th century.

Sex--Philippines--History--19th century.

Philippine literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 304 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press ; Seattle : In association with University of Washington Press, [2008]

Summary:

Love, Passion and Patriotism is an intimate account of the lives and experiences of a renowned group of young Filipino patriots whose propaganda campaign was a catalyst for the country's revolt against Spain. Jose Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Graciano Lopez Jaena, and the brothers Juan and Antonio Luna were talented writers, artists and scientists who resided in Europe during the 1880s and 1890s. As expatriates, they lived outside the social constraints of their own society and were eager to explore all that Europe had to offer. Provoked by racism and allegations of effeminacy and childishness, they displayed their manliness and urbanity through fashionable European dress, careful grooming and deportment, and demonstrated their courage and virility through fencing, pistol-shooting and dueling.

Their studies exposed them to scientific discourses on the body and novel categorizations of pathology and disease, ideas they used to challenge the religious obscurantism and folk superstition they saw in their country. However, their experiences also radically shaped their ideas of sex and the sexual nature of Filipino women. Raquel A. G. Reyes explores the paintings, photographs, political writings, novels and letters of the propagandistas to investigate the moral contradictions inherent in their passionate patriotism, and their struggle to come to terms with the relative sexual freedom of European women, which they found both alluring and sordid.

Contents:

1 The Sensual Scene: Love and Courtship in Urbane Manila

The City and European Civilities 1

City Folk and the Experience of Romance 11

The Rules of Urbanidad and the Affirmation of Bourgeois Sexuality 20

Manila Society and Bourgeois Honor 26

2 Encountering La Parisienne: Juan Luna and the Challenge of Modern Femininity

Painting La Parisienne 39

Defining the Modern Woman 43

Journeying to Modern Life 49

Ilustrados and the Allure of Paris 53

Parisian Chic 59

"Monsieur Wants to Kill Madame" 67

3 Antonio Luna's Impresiones: The Anatomy of Amor Propio

Disenchantment 84

A Question of Honor 91

Sport and Sartorial Subversion 94

Vulgarity 101

Entering the Contact Zone 103

"Does she love me?" 108

4 Friar Immorality and Female Religiosity in the Ilustrado Imagination

Eradicating the Human Poison 117

Sex and the Sacerdotes 121

The Ignorance of the Masses 128

Sleeping with the Enemy: The Culpability of Women 133

Supplanting the Friars: Bourgeois Men and the Path to Redemption 139

5 Pathological Visions: Rizal, Female Sexuality and the Sickness of Society

Truth in Science 154

Chengoy's Gossip and "The Eastern Question" 162

Mad, Bad and Hysterical: Female Sexuality in Noli me tangere 167

Rizal's Patria 177

Sculpting the Sensual 180

6 Silencing the Flesh: Rizal's Erasure of Female Sexual Pleasure

Sex and Civilization 198

Footnoting Fornication: Rizal's Annotations of Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas 206

A Lexical Detour: Defining Desire in Serrano Laktaw's Diccionario 217

The Elusiveness of Virtue 222

Sex Education 225

Brotherly Advice 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index.

ISBN:

9780295988054

0295988053

OCLC:

183264942