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They Need Nothing: Hispanic-Asian Encounters Of The Colonial Period., Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis

The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how these writings depict Asia and Asians as both similar to and different from Europe and Europeans, and details how East and Southeast Asians reacted to the Spanish presence in Asia.

They Need Nothing highlights texts related to Japan, China, Cambodia, and the Philippines, beginning with Francis Xavier's observations of Japan in the mid-sixteenth century and ending with José …

A Passage To The Self: Homoerotic Orientalism And Hispanic Life-Writing., Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis

The development of autobiography as a dominant literary genre and the formulation of modern conceptions of sexuality are largely synchronic phenomena. Modern autobiography, produced in the context of high capitalism, presupposes the existence of a discrete self whose meaning is revealed through reflection and rendered tangible through linguistic representation. According to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sexologists, this self is fundamentally sexual. In what is perhaps the most famous passage of The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault explains how sexologists conceived of male homosexuality as “a singular nature” lying “at the root of all [one’s] actions” (43). Its essence, they …

The Hispanic Homograph: Gay Self-Representation In Contemporary Spanish Autobiography, Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis

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