Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Anderson's lecture was an exploration of José Rizal’s astonishing last novel, El Filibusterismo, situated in the transnational space/time of the late nineteenth-century global landscape. Imperial power, anarchist bombings, and anti-colonial insurrections were transformed to explosive effect by the gifted young Filipino novelist, and make possible a new understanding of the literary and political interactions between world capital and colonial periphery in the fin-de-siècle. Noting that Rizal’s novel, peculiarly enough for the 19th C, was set in a time yet to come, “in the near future”, Anderson went on to speak more generally about pasts/futures/presents anchored in different spaces.
