Rafael, Vicente L.

The promise of the foreign : nationalism and the technics of translation in the Spanish Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael. - Quezon City : Ateneo De Manila University Press, c2005. - xxiv, 231 pages : 23 cm.

Includes notes, works cited, and index.

Translation and telecommunication : castilian as a lingua franca.--The phantasm of revenge : on rizal's fili.--The call of death : on rizal's noli.--The colonial uncanny : the foreign lodged in the vernacular.--Making the vernacular foreign : tagalog as castilian.--Pity, recognition, and the risks of literature in balagtas.--Freedom = death : conjurings, secrecy, revolution.

This book has grown out of the tangled legacies of several writers who have come to shape my thinking about nationalism, translation, and related topics.

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NATIONALISM--PHILIPPINES
LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES--POLITICAL ASPECTS--PHILIPPINES
SPANISH LANGUAGE--TRANSLATING


PHILIPPINE LITERATURE (SPANISH)--HISTORY AND CRITICISM
PHILIPPINES--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

HX 550 .R34 2005