Irene Villaescusa Illán is a lecturer of literature and cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam. She is the coeditor of Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization. 

1. Writing the Philippines in Spanish: an introduction.- 2. Transcultural Orientalism: Re-writing the Orient from Latin America and The Philippines.- 3. Nostalgia for the Orient: Images of the Philippines in the Work of Adelina Gurrea.- 4. Travelling the Modern World: Paz Mendoza's Notas de viaje (1929).- 5. Translation Strategies in Jesús Balmori's Los Pájaros de fuego. Una novela filipina de la guerra (1945).- 6. Transcultural Nationalism in Antonio Abad's El Campeón (1940).- 7. Conclusion.