Motherless tongues
Subtitle: the insurgency of language amid wars of translation
By: Vicente L. Rafael
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9789715507561
Subjects: Languages; Translating and interpreting; Political aspects; Colonial influence; Philippine languages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Welcoming what comes : translating sovereignty in the revolutionary Philippines; title: Wars of translation : American English, colonial schooling, and Tagalog slang; title: The cell phone and the crowd : messianic politics in the EDSA II uprising; title: Translation, American English, and the national insecurities of empire; title: Targeting translation : counterinsurgency and the weaponization of language; title: The accidents of area studies : Benedict Anderson and Arjun Appadurai; title: Contracting nostalgia : on Renato Rosaldo; title: Language, history, and autobiography : becoming Reynaldo Ileto; title: Interview: Translation speaks with Vicente Rafael.