Language, Culture and Decolonisation
David Boucher, editor | | ISBN: 978-0-7969-2612-8 $45.00 |
| ISBN: 978-0-7969-2644-9 $45.00 |
| 2022/239 pages Distributed for HSRC Press |
DESCRIPTION
Fanon has written that colonialism gets under the skin of the colonized by taking control of a people’s history, language, and culture—and denigrating all three. Exploring this reality, the authors of Language, Culture and Decolonisation draw on history, politics, philosophy, and literary studies to put forth a range of arguments about the importance of indigenous languages in the formation and expression of postcolonial identity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Boucher is professor of political philosophy and international relations at Cardiff University.
CONTENTS
- Introduction: Language and Decoloniality in Context—D. Boucher.
- Decolonisation and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Circulations and Language in the Postcolonial Word—C. Smões de Araújo.
- Language in Africa and the Impossibility of an African Philosophy of Liberation—M.J. Lamola.
- The Place of Colonial Languages in Decolonial Philosophy and Practice—B. Sibanda.
- Decolonialising the Language of Personhood—M. Tshivhase.
- African Literature as Self-Interpretive: The Prospects of Indigenous Reading Modes—I. Chukwumah.
- Cultural Decolonisation and the (Im)Possibilities of Literary Language—S.E. Egya.
- Revealing the Power of Language and Developing Theory from Historical Artifacts—S.H. Kumalo.
- Colonialism, Politics of Belonging, and the Reinvention of African Cultures: The Case of South Africa—S. Ndlovu.
- The Turn to Tradition: Colonialism, Class, and the Making of Zulu Identity—B. Ngqulunga.
- The Politics of Knowledge Production and Publishing: The Case of the Zulu Society—J. Sithole.
- Minority Language Revitalization: European Conundrums—C.H. Williams.
