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Vicente L. Rafael
Vicente L. Rafael is Professor of History and Southeast Asian studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author most recently of The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte (2022). His other books include Contracting Colonialism; White Love and Other Events in Filipino Histories; The Promise of the Foreign; Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation, all published by Duke University Press.