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Motherless tongues : the insurgency of language amid wars of translation /

In Motherless Tongues, Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Moving across a range of colonial and postcolonial settings, he demonstrates translation's agency in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rafael, Vicente L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016
Colección:Online access with subscription: Duke University Press.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Welcoming what comes : translating sovereignty in the revolutionary Philippines
  • Wars of translation : American English, colonial schooling, and Tagalog slang
  • The cell phone and the crowd : messianic politics in the EDSA II uprising
  • Translation, American English, and the national insecurities of empire
  • Targeting translation : counterinsurgency and the weaponization of language
  • The accidents of area studies : Benedict Anderson and Arjun Appadurai
  • Contracting nostalgia : on Renato Rosaldo
  • Language, history, and autobiography : becoming Reynaldo Ileto
  • Interview: Translation speaks with Vicente Rafael