Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Description of Activity
Tom Sykes gave a presentation entitled 'Getting the Philippines Wrong Since 1840.' Drawing from his book, 'Imagining Manila,' to describe several enduring representational tropes and devices that have defined a trajectory of British and American Orientalist fiction, travel writing and journalism about the city of Manila. Termed “Manilaism,” he discussed counter-hegemonic canon of Filipino and foreign writers who have dissented from this distorted view of Manila.
Period
22 Feb 2022
Held at
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, United States, Hawaii