Reading Rizal
Wilhelm Tell and texts of revolution in the colonial Philippines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4465260 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christa Wirth (Institute for Religion, Philosophy, and History, University of Agder Kristiansand, Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-278 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Postcolonial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-8790 • E-ISSN: 1466-1888 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13688790.2021.2018774 |
| OpenAlex | W4200159912 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The Philippines celebrates nationalist Jose Rizal as the ‘First Filipino’ who laid the intellectual foundation for the Philippine nation. He was executed by the Spanish colonial government for allegedly machinating a revolution against the motherland in 1896. In the historiography, discussions over where to place Rizal on the reform-to-revolution spectrum dominate. This article locates Rizal's often-neglected translation of Wilhelm Tell within his oeuvre, which gives new insight into Rizal's political position: Rizal argued as early as 1886 that after a turning point to which the subject has been pushed by the oppressor, a violent reaction is necessary and a revolution as a consequence thereof is legitimate. To make the translation legible to all Tagalog classes, he pasyonized the text and turned Friedrich Schiller’s Blankverse into Tagalog verses
Art · Colonialism · Historiography · Linguistics · Literature · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Tagalog · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |