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Motherless Tongues - The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation (Hardcover)
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Motherless Tongues - The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation (Hardcover)
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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 making and understanding
of events. These 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. Along the way,
Rafael delineates the untranslatable that inheres in every act of
translation, asking about the politics and ethics of uneven
linguistic and semiotic exchanges. Mapping those moments where
translation and historical imagination give rise to one another,
Motherless Tongues shows how translation, in unleashing the
insurgency of language, simultaneously sustains and subverts
regimes of knowledge and relations of power.
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