Between Empires Mart, Rizal, and the Intercolonial Alliance [Hardcover]

In 1898, both Cuba and the Philippines achieved their independence from Spain and then immediately became targets of US expansionism. This book presents a comparative analysis of late-nineteenth-century literature and history in Cuba and the Philippines, focusing on the writings of Jos? Mart? and Jos? Rizal to reveal shared anti-imperial struggles.Introduction: Phantoms of Jos? Mart? and Jos? Rizal 1. Anti-Colonial Melodramas: Gender Relations and the Discourse of Resistance in Noli me tangere and Luc?a Jerez 2. Theatrical Performance in the Manifesto: Comparative Analysis of Mart?'s 'Manifiesto de Montecristi' and Rizal's 'Filipinas dentro de cien a?os' 3. Cuban and Filipino Calibans Confront the Modern Empire 4. Conversations Across the Pacific: Masonry, Epistolary, and Journal Writing Afterword

Between Empires is an outstanding example of intellectual history about the Cuban Jos? Mart? and the Filipino Jos? Rizal. Although others have studied points of contact between Mart? and Rizal, Hagimoto's study is significant because of the extensive nature of his examination of continuities between the two writers under the theoretical umbrella of intercolonial alliance. It constitutes an important model for other ways of viewing postcoloniality in the Caribbean and Latin America beyond the models of Marxist revolution, and it makes a notable contribution to the growing and fascinating bibliography of Asian-Latin American cultural relations. - David William Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University, USA

Koichi Hagimoto's comparative, post-colonial study reveals a fascinating intercolonial alliance against Spain and the United States between two countries under the yoke of the Spanish Empire: Cuba and the Philippines. Focusing on their respective iconic forefathers, Hagimoto shows us that, even though Jos? Mart? fought for independence while Jos? Rizal was a reformist, their novels, manifestos,lÓ{