Motherless tongues : the insurgency of language amid wars of translation / Vicente L. Rafael.

By: Rafael, Vicente L [author.]
Language: English Publisher: Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2016Description: xii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780822360582 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780822360742 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9789715507561Subject(s): Philippine languages -- Political aspects | Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects -- Philippines | United States -- Languages -- Political aspects | Philippines -- Colonial influenceDDC classification: 306.449599 R121 2016 LOC classification: P119.32.P45 | R34 2016
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.

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.

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