Language, Culture and Decolonisation

Boucher, David (EDT)

HSRC Press（2022/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 239 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780796926128
• DDC分類 306.44

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction: Language and Decoloniality in Context-David Boucher
1.Language and liberation-David Boucher
2.'Decolonization and the Pedagogy of theOppressed: Circulations and Language in the Postcolonial World'-Caio Simões de Araújo
3.Language in Africa and the Impossibility of African Philosophy-M.John Lamola
4.The place of colonial languages in Decolonial philosophy and practice-Brian Sibanda
5.The Need to Decolonise the Language of Personhood (?)-Mpho Tshivhase
6.African literature as Self-interpretive: the Prospects of Indigenous Reading Modes-Ignatius Chukwumah
7.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 Ndlovuv
10.The Turn to Tradition: Colonialism, Class and the Making of the Zulu Identity-Bongani Ngqulunga
11.The Politics of Knowledge Production and Publishing: The Case of the Zulu Society-Jabulani Sithole
12.Minority Language Revitalization: European Conundrums-Colin H. Williams
Notes about the Authors and contributors
Index