Desiring a Beautiful Death

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the Paperback Edition ix
4. Preface (1988) xvii
5. Introduction: Fishing Out the Past 1
6. 1. The Politics of Translation
7. Language and Empire 23
8. Dominating the Vernacular 26
9. The "Failure" of Native Writing 39
10. 2. Tomas Pinpin and the Shock of Castilian
11. Syncopating Language 55
12. Counting and the Evasion of Grammar 66
13. Gambling on Castilian 71
14. 3. Conversion and the Demands of Confession
15. The "Inadequacies" of Tagalog Conversion 84
16. Reducing Native Bodies 87
17. Confession and the Logic of Conversion 91
18. 4. Untranslatability and the Terms of Reciprocity
19. Rereading Christianity 110
20. The Imperative of Indebtedness: Utang na Loob and Hiya 121
21. 5. Translating Submission
22. Person and Status in Precolonial Society 137
23. The Reach ofImperial Patronage 146
24. Conversion and the Ideology of Submission 154
25. 6. Paradise and the Reinvention of Death
26. Generalizing Servitude 167
27. Visualizing the "Outside" 169
28. Spirits and the Appeal of Christianity 185
29. Desiring a Beautiful Death 196
30. Afterword: Translation and the Colonial Legacy 210
31. Bibliography 220
32. Index 227