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Learning Zulu - A Secret History of Language in South Africa (Paperback)
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Learning Zulu - A Secret History of Language in South Africa (Paperback)
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"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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