Learning Zulu : a secret history of language in South Africa / Mark Sanders.
2016
PL8841 .S26 2016eb
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Title
Learning Zulu : a secret history of language in South Africa / Mark Sanders.
Author
Sanders, Mark, 1968- author.
ISBN
9781400881086 (electronic book)
1400881080 (electronic book)
9780691167565
0691167567
1400881080 (electronic book)
9780691167565
0691167567
Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (198 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9781400881086 doi
Call Number
PL8841 .S26 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
496.3986
Summary
"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans, Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of Zulu-language learning--from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity. In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English- and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South Africa. Through one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language, Learning Zulu explores how a language's history and politics influence all individuals in a multilingual society.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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text file PDF
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Translation/transnation.
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Learning Zulu.
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