Abstract
ABSTRACTThis essay explores the Philippines’s geopolitical orientation vis-à-vis late nineteenth-century Spain amid nation-building efforts and changing maritime infrastructure. The period in question represents a turning point for Spain’s transpacific empire, not only because of the emergent political discourse on nationhood, but also because, following the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, state actors and intellectuals alike began to experience and engage with the once-remote colony differently. I argue that the Suez Canal, which profoundly changed the temporal-spatial contours of empire, prompted writers, artists and statesmen on both sides of the Pacific to imagine empire through the trope of intimacy.
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