Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation by Vicente L. Rafael

Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation

Vicente L. Rafael

272 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction challenging reflective medium-paced
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In Motherless Tongues, Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Moving across a range of colonial and postcolonial se...

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