"Love, Passion and Patriotism" is an intimate account of the lives
and experiences of a renowned group of young Filipino patriots, the
men whose propaganda campaign was a catalyst for the country's
revolt against Spain.
Jos Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Graciano L pez Jaena, and the
brothers Juan and Antonio Luna were talented writers, artists, and
scientists who resided in Europe during the 1880s and 1890s. As
expatriates they were free from the social constraints of their own
society and eager to explore all that Europe had to offer. Their
studies exposed them to scientific discourse on the body and new
categorizations of pathology and disease, knowledge which they used
to challenge the religious obscurantism and folk superstition they
saw in their country.
Their experience of modern life in Europe also radically
reshaped their ideas of sex and the sexual nature of Filipino
women. Raquel A. G. Reyes uses the paintings, photographs,
political writings, novels, and letters of the propagandistas to
show the moral contradictions inherent in their passionate
patriotism and their struggle to come to terms with the relative
sexual freedom of European women, which they found both alluring
and sordid. Provoked by racism and allegations of effeminacy and
childishness, they displayed their manliness and urbanity through
fashionable European dress, careful grooming and deportment, and
demonstrated their courage and virility through fencing,
pistol-shooting, and dueling.
Raquel A. G. Reyes is a British Academy post-doctoral research
fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the
University of London.
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