Vicente L. Rafael

Vicente L. Rafael is a professor of history at the University of Washington in Seattle. His interests include Southeast Asia, comparative colonialism, and comparative nationalism. Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Collective of the journal Public Culture.

Selected Bibliography

* 2005. The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
* 2000. White Love and Other Events in Filipino History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
*1999. Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines and Colonial Vietnam. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications.
* 1999. Translation and Revenge: Castilian and the Origins of Nationalism in the Philippines. Chapter in The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America. Doris Sommer, ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
* 1995. Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
* 1993. Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

External Links

1. [http://faculty.washington.edu/vrafael/ University of Washington Faculty Web Site]