Book chapter
Old Enemies, New Contexts: Early Modern Spanish (Re)-Writing of Islam in the Philippines
Coloniality, Religion, and the Law in the Early Iberian World, p.137
Vanderbilt University Press
03/10/2014
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv16755f4.10
Abstract
The textual representation of the Spanish colonial presence in the southern Philippines takes place in different types of texts, including historical treatises, political documents, relaciones de sucesos, and letters. Within this varied corpus, the Historia de Mindanao y Joló, written by the Jesuit Francisco de Combés (1620–1665) and published in Madrid in 1667, is remarkable for the completeness of its information and the nuances it introduces regarding Spanish contact with Islam in this period. The Historia de Mindanao y Joló exposes a writing process marked by complex mechanisms based on difference and processes of negotiation: negotiation with the expectations
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- Title: Subtitle
- Old Enemies, New Contexts: Early Modern Spanish (Re)-Writing of Islam in the Philippines
- Creators
- Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez
- Contributors
- Santa Arias (Editor)Raúl Marrero-Fente (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Coloniality, Religion, and the Law in the Early Iberian World, p.137
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- DOI
- 10.2307/j.ctv16755f4.10
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/10/2014
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984399055102771
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