O LUGAR DAS FILIPINAS NA MEMÓRIA DA GESTA CASTELHANA NA ÁSIA NOS INÍCIOS DO SÉCULO XVII : OS CASOS DE BARTOLOMÉ LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA E DE ANTONIO DE MORGA在熱士達‧卡斯德拉那17世紀初亞洲回憶錄中菲律賓的位置—巴爾多羅梅‧雷奧那多‧德‧阿爾任索拉和安東尼奧‧德‧莫爾加之個案分析
This article analyzes how the Philippines were integrated into the “memory of the Castilian feat in Asia” in the early seventeenth century, focusing on two reference authors: Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola and Antonio de Morga. Drawing from Donald F. Lach’s observation on the historical marginality...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
October 2008
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40028/3640 |
| Summary: | This article analyzes how the Philippines were integrated into the “memory of the Castilian feat in Asia” in the early seventeenth century, focusing on two reference authors: Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola and Antonio de Morga. Drawing from Donald F. Lach’s observation on the historical marginality of the Philippines in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European literature, the study proposes that the consolidation of the archipelago as an “insular platform for expansion” generated new possibilities for the production of information, but did not ensure full narrative centrality in printed historiography.
Methodologically, the research conducts a comparative reading of the chronicle discourses and the devices of geographical and toponymic representation present in the works analyzed, confronting them with the political-military context and the networks of knowledge circulation between the Asian terrain and editorial centers. It concludes that, until the first decade of the seventeenth century, the construction of Castilian historicity tended to be mediated by institutional and religious objectives, which contributed to asymmetries in the framing of the islands and to deficiencies in the apprehension of space.
The cases of Argensola and Morga thus evidence how the visibility of the Philippines emerged accompanied by interpretive limitations, reflected in toponymic errors and in an uneven integration of the archipelago into the imaginary of Spanish expansion in Asia. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |