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題名 In Our Image But Not Quite: Desire, Capital, and Flawed Simulation in Twentieth Century Western Writing on Manila
繪吾城而未信然：二十世紀西方馬尼拉書寫中的慾望、資本以及殘缺擬仿
作者 Sykes, Tom
貢獻者 文山評論：文學與文化
關鍵詞 Philippine studies; literature; postcolonialism; urbanism; Asian studies; media
菲律賓研究; 文學; 後殖民主義; 都市主義; 亞洲研究; 媒體
日期 2024-12
上傳時間 8-Jan-2025 10:57:07 (UTC+8)
摘要 This paper examines almost a century of writers, from Mary H. Fee in the early 1910s to Timothy Mo in the late 1990s, who imagine Manila as a simulation of an American city, albeit one with imperfections. The notion that Manila, in trying to replicate the best of Western urbanity, has instead been a crude, kitsch spoof of New York or Los Angeles, has always suited Orientalist agendas borne from the Philippines’ junior status in international power structures and its role as a heavy importer of US cultural commodities. Transfixed by the Americophile Marcos dictatorship, Western Orientalist writers of the 1970s and 1980s seek to legitimize their observations about Manila’s “Pepsicolonisation” by emphasizing the ways in which Manileños have internalized—and are therefore supposedly welcoming towards—the codes of Western simulation. By the 1990s, an almost century-old model of feminine allure has been re-configured by Western memoirists and foreign correspondents who portray Manila as a salacious paradise catering to the Western male libido.
關聯 文山評論：文學與文化, 18(1), 69-89
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.202412_18(1).0003
dc.contributor 文山評論：文學與文化
dc.creator (作者) Sykes, Tom
dc.date (日期) 2024-12
dc.date.accessioned 8-Jan-2025 10:57:07 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 8-Jan-2025 10:57:07 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 8-Jan-2025 10:57:07 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) https://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/155117-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) This paper examines almost a century of writers, from Mary H. Fee in the early 1910s to Timothy Mo in the late 1990s, who imagine Manila as a simulation of an American city, albeit one with imperfections. The notion that Manila, in trying to replicate the best of Western urbanity, has instead been a crude, kitsch spoof of New York or Los Angeles, has always suited Orientalist agendas borne from the Philippines’ junior status in international power structures and its role as a heavy importer of US cultural commodities. Transfixed by the Americophile Marcos dictatorship, Western Orientalist writers of the 1970s and 1980s seek to legitimize their observations about Manila’s “Pepsicolonisation” by emphasizing the ways in which Manileños have internalized—and are therefore supposedly welcoming towards—the codes of Western simulation. By the 1990s, an almost century-old model of feminine allure has been re-configured by Western memoirists and foreign correspondents who portray Manila as a salacious paradise catering to the Western male libido.
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dc.relation (關聯) 文山評論：文學與文化, 18(1), 69-89
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Philippine studies; literature; postcolonialism; urbanism; Asian studies; media
dc.subject (關鍵詞) 菲律賓研究; 文學; 後殖民主義; 都市主義; 亞洲研究; 媒體
dc.title (題名) In Our Image But Not Quite: Desire, Capital, and Flawed Simulation in Twentieth Century Western Writing on Manila
dc.title (題名) 繪吾城而未信然：二十世紀西方馬尼拉書寫中的慾望、資本以及殘缺擬仿
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.30395/WSR.202412_18(1).0003
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.202412_18(1).0003