Archival Documentation in the Philological Analysis of Philippine Spanish: A Review of El español de Filipinas. Documentos coloniales by Mariano Franco Figueroa

Abstract

Issues of access often limit research in Fil-Hispanic studies. Firstly, scholars in the field have to contend with constraints to physical accessibility. While many materials from the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) and the Archivo General de Indias (AGI), two oft-cited sources in the study of Philippine Hispanism, have since been digitalized and made publicly available, a host of other archival documents and manuscripts both in the Philippines and abroad have yet to make their way into the databases that Filipino researchers can readily consult.

Keywords

• Mariano Franco Figueroa
• El español de Filipina
• Philological Analysis