Language, Culture and Decolonisation

SKU: 9780796926128
Language, Culture and Decolonisation by David Boucher

Language, Culture and Decolonisation

SKU: 9780796926128
Author: David Boucher
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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 book 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. This 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. It also looks at arguments that make the case for the appropriation of the coloniser as a method of subversion. French and English, for example, became the lingua franca of an elite pan-African intelligentsia. This insightful 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. --

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Format
Paperback
Reading age
18+
Pages
239
Publisher
HSRC Press
Language
English
ISBN
9780796926128

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