Qu\u00e8 feien els espanyols a les Filipines? Qu\u00e8 feien a les illes Palau, a les Marianes, a les Carolines? En la seva empresa colonial no hi havia ni una espurna de gl\u00f2ria, ni de grandesa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No hi havia gens d\u2019efic\u00e0cia administrativa, ni a penes capacitat d\u2019explotaci\u00f3 comercial. En moltes d\u2019aquelles illes i illots escampats en la vasta extensi\u00f3 oce\u00e0nica no existia cap signe d\u2019administraci\u00f3, ni de pres\u00e8ncia colonial, i l\u2019interior selv\u00e0tic i muntany\u00f3s d\u2019algunes grans illes colonitzades continuava sent un territori desconegut. Final d\u2019imperi cont\u00e9 dues narracions sobre el colonialisme europeu a \u00c0sia i Am\u00e8rica. La primera, que dona t\u00edtol al llibre, \u00e9s protagonitzada per un soldat enviat a les Illes Filipines quan el domini espanyol s\u2019est\u00e0 enfonsant. La segona, titulada \u201cSetze anys a Calif\u00f2rnia\u201d, narra l\u2019estranya traject\u00f2ria d\u2019un frare enviat als deserts de M\u00e8xic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El lector hi trobar\u00e0, per tant, dues hist\u00f2ries crues i reals sobre la barb\u00e0rie del colonialisme espanyol en un moment en qu\u00e8, a m\u00e9s a m\u00e9s, l\u2019imperi feia aig\u00fces. Xavier Serra Treballa en el terreny de la narrativa sense ficci\u00f3. Ha col\u00b7laborat en les revistes Afers, L\u2019Espill, Sa\u00f3, Revista de Catalunya, Journal of Catalan Intellectual History… Actualment, escriu columnes d\u2019opini\u00f3 en La Veu del Pa\u00eds Valenci\u00e0. \u00c9s un dels autors m\u00e9s destacats de l\u2019editorial Afers. Hi t\u00e9 publicats quatre volums amb el t\u00edtol \u00abBiografies parcials\u00bb i diversos llibres d\u2019assaig: \u00abHist\u00f2ria social de la filosofia catalana\u00bb (2010), \u00abLa tert\u00falia de Joan Fuster\u00bb (2012), \u00abA peu de foto\u00bb (amb fotografies de Francesc Vera, 2012) i \u00abLa filosofia en la cultura catalana\u00bb (2013). Dins de la col\u00b7lecci\u00f3 \u201cNarrativa\u201d ha publicat \u00abEspurna\u00bb (2021) i \u00abEl vicec\u00f2nsol\u00bb (2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22920,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categorias_recomendaciones":[1807],"subcategorias_recomendaciones":[],"class_list":["post-22921","recomendaciones","type-recomendaciones","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorias_recomendaciones-adulto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblioteca.xativa.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recomendaciones\/22921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblioteca.xativa.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recomendaciones"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblioteca.xativa.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/recomendaciones"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblioteca.xativa.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblioteca.xativa.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorias_recomendaciones","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblioteca.xativa.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorias_recomendaciones?post=22921"},{"taxonomy":"subcategorias_recomendaciones","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblioteca.xativa.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subcategorias_recomendaciones?post=22921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}