Philippine Historiography and Colonial Discourse Flashcards

These flashcards cover the key figures, historical debates, and theoretical concepts mentioned in the lecture notes on Philippine Historiography and Colonial Discourse.

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Yoshiko Nagano

The author of the 2004 Japanese essay and compiler of the edited volume 'Philippine Historiography and Colonial Discourse'.

Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes

The scholar who translated Yoshiko Nagano's commentary from Japanese into English for wider readership.

Postcolonial critique

A framework that sheds light on the United States’ politico-cultural power and examines colonial modernity as the result of rule by Spain, the U.S., and Japan.

Double perspective

A concept by Edward Said that enables one to see a wider picture by crossing borders between two different systems of discourse defined by language.

Reynaldo C. Ileto

A Filipino historian who wrote 'Pasyon and Revolution' and explored a new horizon in the historiography of the Philippine Revolution.

Vicente L. Rafael

A Filipino historian who applied poststructuralist theories to colonial society in 'Contracting Colonialism'.

Floro C. Quibuyen

A political scientist and author of 'A Nation Aborted' who challenged the American-prototypical deconstruction of Jose Rizal.

Colonial modernity

Viewed by post-independence scholars as the deep root of contemporary Philippine society resulting from centuries of Spanish, American, and Japanese rule.

Philippine Revolution of 1896-1898

The first independent struggle in colonial Southeast Asia, marking the country's independence from Spain before U.S. intervention.

Philippine-American War

A conflict that broke out in 1899 and was declared 'pacified' by the United States in 1902, aborting the revolution.

May-Ileto debate

A hegemonic struggle regarding the interpretation of Andres Bonifacio's role in the revolution between Glenn May and Reynaldo Ileto.

Glenn May

Author of 'Inventing a Hero' who argued that the image of Andres Bonifacio was created using unreliable documents rather than historical scrutiny.

Post-colonial studies (Japan context)

An approach where Japanese scholars consciously grasp the dual structure of being the 'other' against the West while demanding neighboring Asians to be their 'other'.

Pasyon and Revolution

A monumental work by Ileto that traces revolutionary ideas to the Pasyon text and indigenous religious movements.

Contracting Colonialism

A book by Vicente Rafael analyzing the role of language, translation, and Christian conversion in Tagalog society under Spanish rule.

1903 Census

A historic event analyzed by Vicente Rafael and Benito Vergara Jr. as a mirror of American colonialism rather than just a modern administrative tool.

A Nation Aborted

Floro Quibuyen's work that re-examines Jose Rizal, arguing he was not a reformist but embodied ideas of resistance.

Renato Constantino

A radical critic who asserted that Andres Bonifacio, not Jose Rizal, is the true Filipino national hero.

Orientalism (in Philippine politics)

The 'patron-client relationship' framework introduced by Carl Lande, which Ileto criticizes as a limiting American analytical structure.

Minzoku shugisha

The Japanese term chosen by the translation team for 'nationalist,' literally meaning 'ethnicity-ist' to avoid certain localized nuances.

Utang na loob and hiya

Philippine versions of reciprocal social relationships that formed part of the early critical examination of social structures.