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Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolivar's Ismael and Rizal's Marti at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolivar's Ismael and Rizal's Marti at the Turn of the... Page 92 Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolívar’s Ismael and Rizal’s Martí at the Turn of the Twentieth Century John D. Blanco Acabarán como el padre—contestó Elías en voz baja—; cuando la desgracia ha marcado una vez una familia, todos los miembros tienen que perecer; cuando el rayo hiere un árbol, todo lo reduce a cenizas. [“They will end up like their father,” Elías answered in a low voice. “Once misfortune has marked a family, all its members must perish; like a bolt of lightning that wounds a tree, reducing everything to ashes.”] —José Rizal, Noli me tangere (Do Not Touch Me) The title of my essay aims to highlight two important themes in the late colonial literature of Cuba and the Philippines at the end of the nineteenth century, embodied in the figure of a bastard son or daughter in various novels and poems. The first theme is the recovery of a lost legacy, patrimony, or the intimation of fate, which reconfigures the ethical and political decisions of the colonial subject on the eve of revolution. The second is the bastard’s anomalous identity, which prefigures the colonial subject’s abandonment by the society that engendered the colonial condition, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Radical History Review Duke University Press

Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolivar's Ismael and Rizal's Marti at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Radical History Review , Volume 2004 (89) – Apr 1, 2004

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2004 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc.
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0163-6545
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1534-1453
DOI
10.1215/01636545-2004-89-92
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Page 92 Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolívar’s Ismael and Rizal’s Martí at the Turn of the Twentieth Century John D. Blanco Acabarán como el padre—contestó Elías en voz baja—; cuando la desgracia ha marcado una vez una familia, todos los miembros tienen que perecer; cuando el rayo hiere un árbol, todo lo reduce a cenizas. [“They will end up like their father,” Elías answered in a low voice. “Once misfortune has marked a family, all its members must perish; like a bolt of lightning that wounds a tree, reducing everything to ashes.”] —José Rizal, Noli me tangere (Do Not Touch Me) The title of my essay aims to highlight two important themes in the late colonial literature of Cuba and the Philippines at the end of the nineteenth century, embodied in the figure of a bastard son or daughter in various novels and poems. The first theme is the recovery of a lost legacy, patrimony, or the intimation of fate, which reconfigures the ethical and political decisions of the colonial subject on the eve of revolution. The second is the bastard’s anomalous identity, which prefigures the colonial subject’s abandonment by the society that engendered the colonial condition,

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Radical History ReviewDuke University Press

Published: Apr 1, 2004

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