Imagining Manila

Tom Sykes is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His previous books include The Realm of the Punisher, and his essays have appeared in A Global History of Literature and the Environment, Supernatural Cities, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Social Identities and Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. His journalism has appeared in Private Eye, New Statesman, The Scotsman, The Telegraph, New Internationalist, Monocle, New African, Red Pepper, South East Asia Globe and numerous print and digital media around the world.

Introduction: Manilaism as an Orientalism

Chapter 1. ‘A Seething Cauldron of Evil’: Hispanophobia, Third World Blues and Manila-as-Hell

Chapter 2. ‘Known to All Students of History’: Adventure, Imperial Mythology and Orientalist Rhetoric in Manilaism of the US Conquest of the Philippines

Chapter 3. ‘The Pious New Name of the Musket’: Language, Gender, Race and Benevolent Assimilation

Chapter 4. In Our Image but Not Quite: Desire, Capital and Flawed Simulacra in Twentieth Century Manilaism

Chapter 5. Money-Getting, Job-Thieving and Militarisation: Manilaist Constructions of Chinese-Filipinos from Daniel Defoe to Jonathan Miller

Chapter 6. Call of Duterte: Cacique Despotism and Western (Neo)liberal Crisis

Chapter 7. Towards an Anti-Manilaism

Conclusion: Liberal Orientalism versus Genuine Humanism

Notes

Bibliography