Rafael Motherless Tongues

The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7457-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rafael, Vicente L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Vicente L. Rafael is Professor of History at the University of Washington. His books include The Promise of the Foreign, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History, and Contracting Colonialism, all also published by Duke University Press.