Promise of the Foreign Nationalism And the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

"Following up onContracting Colonialism, Vicente L. Rafael studies the Philippine nationalists' failed attempts to lay claim to Spanish, and the emergence of a hungry Tagalog meaning-machine eager to 'host the foreign in the familiar.' Rafael takes his readers on an astonishing trip through the Philippine cultural archive, from vernacular comedia, epic and novel, to underground newspapers, speeches, and the captured documents of secret societies, examining language as an unstoppable producer of social and political possibilities, including the possibility of the national. No one grasps better than Rafael the ambiguous agency of language in colonialism and decolonization."-Mary Louise Pratt, New York UniversityRafael, Vicente L. is the author of 'Promise of the Foreign Nationalism And the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines', published 2005 under ISBN 9780822336648 and ISBN 0822336642.