- Bib ID:
- 2622859
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rafael, Vicente L
- Edition:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Description:
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 1993
- xxi, 230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0822313413 (alkaline paper)
- Full contents:
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- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Preface (1988)
- Introduction: Fishing Out the Past
- 1. The Politics of Translation. Language and Empire. Dominating the Vernacular. The "Failure" of Native Writing
- 2. Tomas Pinpin and the Shock of Castilian. Syncopating Language. Counting and the Evasion of Grammar. Gambling on Castilian
- 3. Conversion and the Demands of Confession. The "Inadequacies" of Tagalog Conversion. Reducing Native Bodies. Confession and the Logic of Conversion
- 4. Untranslatability and the Terms of Reciprocity. Rereading Christianity. The Imperative of Indebtedness: Utang na Loob and Hiya
- 5. Translating Submission. Person and Status in Precolonial Society. The Reach of Imperial Patronage. Conversion and the Ideology of Submission
- 6. Paradise and the Reinvention of Death. Generalizing Servitude. Visualizing the "Outside" Spirits and the Appeal of Christianity. Desiring a Beautiful Death
- Afterword: Translation and the Colonial Legacy.
- Notes:
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- Originally published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1988.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-226) and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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