CHAPTER 3. The Cell Phone and the Crowd

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. The Aporia of Translation 1
5. PART I. Vernacularizing the political
6. CHAPTER 1. Welcoming What Comes 19
7. CHAPTER 2. Wars of Translation 43
8. CHAPTER 3. The Cell Phone and the Crowd 70
9. PART II. Weaponizing babel
10. CHAPTER 4. Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire 97
11. CHAPTER 5. Targeting Translation 120
12. PART III. Translating Lives
13. CHAPTER 6. The Accidents of Area Studies 147
14. CHAPTER 7. Contracting Nostalgia 162
15. CHAPTER 8. Language, History, and Autobiography 173
16. CHAPTER 9. Interview 189
17. Notes 203
18. Bibliography 233
19. Index 247