{"product_id":"motherless-tongues-the-insurgency-of-language-amid-wars-of-translation-9780822360742","title":"Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation","description":"In \u003ci\u003eMotherless Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eMotherless Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e shows how translation, in unleashing the insurgency of language, simultaneously sustains and subverts regimes of knowledge and relations of power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vicente L. Rafael\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822360742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVicente L. Rafael is Professor of History at the University of Washington. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Promise of the Foreign\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhite Love and Other Events in Filipino History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eContracting Colonialism\u003c\/i\u003e, all also published by Duke University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44478698553459,"sku":"9780822360742","price":59.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_61b00328-b03d-4b5a-ace1-a88fd0575190.jpg?v=1774442301","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/motherless-tongues-the-insurgency-of-language-amid-wars-of-translation-9780822360742","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}