The History and Literature of Revolution in the Philippines - CANCELLED

This course will explore revolution -- both the idea and the event -- as it played out over the course of nineteenth and twentieth Philippine history, and the ways in which it shaped Philippine literature. We will examine the fraught questions of historiography, of the reliability of our sources, and of reading the established historical record "against the grain." 

Our course texts will include scholarly monographs, novels, short stories, political manifestos and tracts, and poetry. Through these works we will examine questions of nationalism, populism, international and regional relations, and the explosive class tensions that marked the last two centuries of Philippine politics, from Spanish colonialism to the Duterte government.

First 6 week session - Runs 5/28/2019 to 7/5/2019