Vicente Rafael, Mona Baker

Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation

February 13, 2016 Mona Baker Publications, Translation

Author(s): Vicente L. Rafael Published: 2016, Duke University Press Cloth: $89.95 – 978-0-8223-6058-2 Paperback: $24.95 – 978-0-8223-6074-2 Description 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 settings, he demonstrates translation’s agency in the making and understanding of events.

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Vicente Rafael

The War of Translation: Colonial Education, American English, and Tagalog Slang in the Philippines

March 29, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Vicente L. Rafael The Journal of Asian Studies / FirstView Article / March 2015, pp 1 – 20 DOI: 10.1017/S0021911814002241, Published online: 24 March 2015 This paper examines the role of language in nationalist attempts at decolonization. In the case of the Philippines, American colonial education imposed English as the sole medium of instruction. Native students were required to

The Only Thing Worth Globalizing Is Dissent: Translation and the Many Languages of Resistance

September 2, 2014 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Events, Translation

A three-day conference to be held in Cairo, 6-8 March 2015 Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK Organized by Mona Baker, Yasmin El Rifae, and Mada Masr http://globalizingdissent.wordpress.com Activists from various regions and countries connect with and influence one another through practices involving various types of translation, including video subtitling, written translation, and oral interpretation. The Egyptian Revolution and the activists and