New PDF release: The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of

By Vicente L. Rafael

ISBN-10: 0822336510

ISBN-13: 9780822336518

ISBN-10: 0822336642

ISBN-13: 9780822336648

In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation used to be key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism within the 19th century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. any such promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent origins of the state by way of mediating one’s stumble upon with issues overseas whereas retaining their strangeness. Rafael examines the workings of the international within the Filipinos’ fascination with Castilian, the language of the Spanish colonizers. In Castilian, Filipino nationalists observed the opportunity of arriving at a lingua franca with which to beat linguistic, neighborhood, and sophistication alterations. but they have been additionally keenly conscious of the social limits and political dangers of this linguistic fantasy.

Through shut readings of nationalist newspapers and novels, the vernacular theater, and money owed of the 1896 anticolonial revolution, Rafael lines the deep ambivalence with which elite nationalists and lower-class Filipinos alike seemed Castilian. The frequent trust within the efficiency of Castilian intended that colonial matters got here involved with a ordinary foreignness inside their very own language and society. Rafael exhibits how they sought to faucet into this uncanny energy, seeing in it either the promise of nationhood and a threat to its cognizance. Tracing the genesis of this promise and the ramifications of its betrayal, Rafael sheds mild at the paradox of nationhood bobbing up from the chances and hazards of translation. via again and again establishing borders to the coming of anything different and new, translation compels the country to host international presences to which it consistently unearths itself held hostage. whereas this situation might be universal to different international locations, Rafael indicates how its unfolding within the Philippine colony could end up claimed by way of Filipinos, as might the names of the useless and their ghostly emanations.

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