Vicente L Rafael: 4 books
The Promise of the Foreign
Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2005
In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent...
by Vicente L. Rafael
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Self-consciously adopting the essay form as a method with which to disrupt epic...
Contracting Colonialism
Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1992
In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L. Rafael examines the role of language in the religious conversion of the Tagalogs to Catholicism and their subsequent colonization during the early period (1580–1705) of Spanish rule in the Philippines. By tracing...
Motherless Tongues
The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
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 the...