Homesickness and the Filipino Nation The Emotional Experience of Propagandists, 1889–1895
  Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
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
Faculty Involved:
Rhodalyn C. Wani-Obias, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: networks of propaganda between 19th century Philippines and Europe, nationalism and identity, social history, and history of emotions.