Frontier constitutions
Subtitle: Christianity and colonial empire in the nineteenth-century Philippines
By: John D. Blanco.
Series: Asia Pacific modern -- 4
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780520255197
Subjects: Christianity -- Philippines -- History -- 19th century; Philippines -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Philippines -- Civilization -- 19th century
First sentence: A series of reflections on the colonial genre of painting in the Philippines, pioneered by native (Indio) artist José Honorato Lozano in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, introduces this book on the entanglements of Christendom, Western Enlightenment, and native tradition during the emergence of the modern colonial state.
Description: Frontier Constitutions is a pathbreaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish), and indigenous colonial subjects in the Philippines during the crisis of colonial hegemony in the nineteenth century, and the social anomie that resulted from this crisis in law and politics. John D. Blanco argues that modernity in the colonial Philippines should not be understood as an imperfect version of a European model but as a unique set of expressions emerging out of contradictions--expressions that sanctioned new political communities formed around the precariousness of Spanish rule. Blanco shows how artists and writers struggled to synthesize these contradictions as they attempted to secure the colonial order or, conversely, to achieve Philippine independence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: List of Illustrations
pagenum: xi; label: Preface
pagenum: xiii; label: Introduction
title: Political Communities, Common Sense, and the Colonial State
pagenum: 1; title: Part I: Shibboleths; label: 1
title: Imperial Christendom and the Colonial State
pagenum: 27; label: 2
title: Special Laws and States of Exception
pagenum: 64; label: 3
title: Customs / Kaugalian
pagenum: 95; title: Part II: Projects; label: 4
title: Publics
pagenum: 129; label: 5
title: Aesthetics
pagenum: 157; label: 6
title: Values / Norms
pagenum: 184; title: Part III: Concatenations; label: 7
title: Gothic
pagenum: 229; label: Epilogue
title: Colonialism and Modernity
pagenum: 271; label: Notes
pagenum: 287; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 337; label: Index
pagenum: 359