Language, Culture And Decolonisation (Paperback)

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 title 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. The 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, and in the formation of cultural ways of reading, against arguments that make the case for the appropriation and subversion of the language of the coloniser. French and English, for example, became the lingua franca of an elite pan-African intelligentsia. The 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.

General

Imprint:	HSRC Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	March 2022
Authors:	David Boucher
Dimensions:	240 x 168 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	370
ISBN-13:	978-0-7969-2612-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-7969-2612-3
Barcode:	9780796926128

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