The Three Flags of Philippine Anti-Colonialism. A Review of Anderson, Benedict's <em>Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination</em> London and New York: Verso, 2005)

Authors

  • Koichi Hagimoto University of Pittsburgh

Keywords:

colonialism, nationalism, Isabelo de los Reyes, Mariano Ponce, José Rizal, Phillippine literature

Abstract

Benedict Anderson’s Under Three Flags provides a comprehensive study of world politics and cultural identities in relation to the birth of Philippine nationalism during the 19th century. Anderson focuses on three Philippine writers: Isabelo de los Reyes (1864-1938), a polemical journalist and folklorist; Mariano Ponce (1863-1918), a coordinating organizer of Philippine independent movement; and most importantly, José Rizal (1861-1896), one of the greatest novelists of Philippine literature. By examining the impact of avant-garde European literature and politics on Rizal and his contemporaries, Anderson attempts to recover the dynamic yet often overlooked relationship between the international anarchist movement of the nineteenth century (above all in Spain, France and Italy) and nascent Philippine nationalism. Anderson explains the purpose of the text as follows: “the book is an experiment in […] political astronomy. It attempts to map the gravitational force of anarchism between militant nationalisms on opposite sides of the planet.”

Author Biography

Koichi Hagimoto, University of Pittsburgh

Koichi Hagimoto es actualmente estudiante de doctorado en la Universidad de Pittsburgh. Recibió su licenciatura en Liberal Arts de Soka University of America (2005) y maestría en Hispanic Languages and Literatures de la Universidad de Pittsburgh (2007). Sus intereses académicos e intelectuales están orientados a la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XIX, la teoría del imperialismo de finales del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX, la teoría de resistencia, la idea de nación y sus modos simbólicos de representación, los estudios post-coloniales y los estudios subalternos. Ha publicado un artículo, “El valor pedagógico ante el imperialismo en el pensamiento de José Martí” en Anuario del Centro de Estudios Martianos (La Habana, 2006). Actualmente está trabajando en su tesis de doctorado sobre la teoría del imperialismo y una comparación entre dos “anti-imperialistas” bajo el sistema colonial español: José Martí y un intelectual filipino, José Rizal.
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2007-08-01

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Hagimoto, K. (2007). The Three Flags of Philippine Anti-Colonialism. A Review of Anderson, Benedict’s <em>Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination</em> London and New York: Verso, 2005). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 5(1), 376–379. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/401

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2007): Fall 2007

Section

Reviews: Empire & Colonialism

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