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• Title:Language, culture and decolonisation / edited by David Boucher.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Boucher, David, 1951- editor.
  
• Published/Created:Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2022.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: P35.5.A35 L36 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Language and culture--Africa.
  Decolonization.
  
• Description:vii, 239 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:Language, culture and decolonisation discusses the importance of language in decoloniality from a global perspective, and the decolonisation process from the disciplinary vantage points of history, politics, philosophy, and literary studies. The book makes original contributions to our understanding of how, in Fanon's words, colonialism gets under the skin of the colonised by taking control of a people's history, language, and culture, and denigrating all three. This edited volume examines classic and contemporary arguments that make the case for the importance of indigenous languages, including creole, in the cultural formation and expression of one's identity. It also looks at arguments that make the case for the appropriation of the coloniser as a method of subversion. French and English, for example, became the lingua franca of an elite pan-African intelligentsia. This insightful book also shows how the coloniser, in promoting indigenous cultures and languages, may defuse and control potential political resistance, as we see in the case of the South African government and the Zulu nation. -- Cover p. 4.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780796926128
  0796926123
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Language and liberation / David Boucher
  2. Decolonisation and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Circulations and language in the postcolonial world / Caio Smoes de Araujo
  3. Language in Africa and the impossibility of an African philosophy of liberation / M. John Lamola
  4. place of colonial languages in decolonial philosophy and practice / Brian Sibanda
  5. Decolonising the language of personhood / Mpho Tshivhase
  6. African literature as self-interpretive: The prospects of indigenous reading modes / Ignatius Chukwumah
  7. Cultural decolonisation and the (im)possibilities of literary language / Sule Emmanuel Egya
  8. Revealing the power of language and developing theory from historical artefacts / Siseko H. Kumalo
  9. Colonialism, politics of belonging and reinvention of African cultures: The case of South Africa / Sifiso Ndlovu
  10. turn to tradition: Colonialism, class and the making of Zulu identity / Bongani Ngqulunga
  11. politics of knowledge production and publishing: The case of the Zulu Society / Jabulani Sithole
  12. Minority language revitalisation: European conundrums / Colin H. Williams.