The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines by Vicente L. Rafael

The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

Vicente L. Rafael

256 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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