Abstract
This study focuses on the emotional experience of homesickness of propagandists and relates it to the birthing of the Filipino nation in the late nineteenth century. I show that these young migrant men straddled two worlds, where both modern ideas of individualism and “parochial” sentiments of community existed together. Second, I demonstrate the change in the migrants’ gaze as it slowly began to include the larger entity of the nation. In the end, I argue that these points illustrate tensions found in a nascent nation as Filipinos navigated their emotions within the context of colonialism and modernity.KEYWORDS: MARCELO DEL PILAR • EXILE • HISTORY OF EMOTIONS • NATIONALISM • PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT
Recommended Citation
Wani-Obias, Rhodalyn C.
(2022)
"Homesickness and the Filipino Nation: The Emotional Experience of Propagandists, 1889–1895,"
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints: Vol. 70:
No.
4, Article 2.
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol70/iss4/2
