Vicente L Rafael

Motherless Tongues

The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation

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Produktbeschreibung

In Motherless Tongues Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history as seen through the work of translation in the context of empire, revolution, and academic scholarship in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360582
• ISBN-10: 0822360586
• Artikelnr.: 42949703

Autorenporträt

Vicente L. Rafael

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. The Aporia of Translation  1
Part I. Vernacularizing the Political
1. Welcoming What Comes: Translating Sovereignty in the Revolutionary
Philippines  21
2. Wars of Translation: American English, Colonial Schooling,and Tagalog
Slang  43
3. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the EDSA II
Uprising  70
Part II. Weaponizing Babel
4. Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire 
99
5. Targeting Translation: Counterinsurgency and the Weaponization of
Language  120
Part III. Translating Lives
6. The Accidents of Area Studies: Benedict Anderson and Arjun Appadurai 
149
7. Contracting Nostalgia: On Renato Rosaldo  162
8. Language, History, and Autobiograhy: Becoming Reynaldo Ileto  173
9. Interview: Translation Speaks with Vicente Rafael  189
Notes  203
Bibliography  233
Index  247