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Author:
Rafael, Vicente L., author.
Title:
Motherless tongues : the insurgency of language amid wars of translation / Vicente L. Rafael.
Publisher:
Duke University Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Philippine languages--Political aspects.
Translating and interpreting--Political aspects--Philippines.
United States--Political aspects.--Political aspects.
Philippines--Colonial influence.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-245) and index.
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.
ISBN:
9780822374572
0822374579
0822360748
9780822360742
0822360586
9780822360582
OCLC:
(OCoLC)910856270
LCCN:
2015034666
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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