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Following up on Contracting 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.

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Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent origins of the nation by mediating one’s encounter with things foreign while preserv In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. In Castilian, Filipino nationalists saw the possibility of arriving at a lingua franca with which to overcome linguistic, regional, and class differences.

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By VICENTE L. RAFAEL. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. 256. Photographs, Bibliography, Notes, Index

By VICENTE L. Photographs, Bibliography, Notes, Index. JULIUS J. BAUTISTA (a1). National University of Singapore. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2007.

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Vicente L. Rafael is a professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Washington, Seattle. colonial state formation. In 2000, Duke University Press published his White Love and Other Events in Filipino History, a challenging of traditional, epic narratives of Filipino history and especially the emergence of revolutionary nationalism. His most recent work is The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines, also published by Duke University Press, in. 2005. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005. 231 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3664-2. Building on his previous work, Vicente Rafael examines the origins of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth-century as a product of linguistic and cultural translation. As an invention of imperialism, the Filipino nation often struggles in its meta-narrative to justify its existence as a product of that which it once despised and still must necessarily despise.

Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines. Rafael shows how they sought to tap into this uncanny power, seeing in it both the promise of nationhood and a menace to its realization. by Vicente L. Tracing the genesis of this promise and the ramifications of its betrayal, Rafael sheds light on the paradox of nationhood arising from the possibilities and risks of translation.