Published in New Approaches in the Research on the Crown of Aragon: Cross-cultural Studies of Muslim West and the Mediterranean. New lights on research

Keywords: Al-Andalus, Asia, Kingdom of Valencia, Moors’ Romances, Philippine Literature.

This work analyzes the development of Philippine Metrical Romances and its Hispanic influences in both theatre («Moros y Cristianos») and epics (Books of Chivalry) in tracing the materialization of the Exotic. Specifically, it will focus on how an exotic topic like the Kingdom of Valencia is presented, recollecting the sources, characters and features along the Philippine corpus. At the end, the purpose will be to trace the literary elegy for the fall of Valencia from the Orient of al-Andalus to the Orient of Asia.