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050			_aPL 5507 .R34 2016
100			_aRafael, Vicente L. _eauthor
245		0	_aMotherless tongues : _bthe insurgency of language amids wars of translation / _cVicente L. Rafael
260			_aQuezon City, Philippines : _bAteneo De Manila University Press, _cc2016
300			_a255 pages ; _c23 cm.
365			_bPHP395
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aPart I. Vernacularizing the Political -- Part II. Weaponizing Babel -- Part III. Translating Iives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aIn 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 the making and understanding of events. These events include nationalist efforts to vernacularize politics, U.S. projects to weaponize languages in wartime, and autobiographical attempts by area studies scholars to translate the otherness of their lives amid the Cold War. In all cases, translation is at war with itself, generating divergent effects. It deploys as well as distorts American English in counterinsurgency and colonial education, for example, just as it re-articulates European notions of sovereignty among Filipino revolutionaries in the nineteenth century and spurs the circulation of text messages in a civilian-driven coup in the twenty-first.
650			_aPHILIPPINE LANGUAGES -- HISTORY
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