ISBN:
9780813947358
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 326 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Reconsiderations in southern African history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Arndt, Jochen S., 1972- Divided by the word
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Arndt, Jochen S., 1972 - Divided by the Word
DDC:
305.800968
Keywords:
Language and culture History
;
Zulu language History
;
Zulu (African people) Ethnic identity
;
Xhosa language History
;
Xhosa (African people) Ethnic identity
;
Missionaries History 19th century
;
South Africa Ethnic relations
;
History
Abstract:
Introduction -- "What Does Stick to People-More Than Their Language-Is Their Isibongo": Language and Belonging in South Africa's Deeper Past -- "Surrounded on All Sides by People That Differ from Them in Every Point, in Color . . . and in Language": The Birth of the "Caffre" Language Paradigm -- "All Speak the Caffre Language": Missionaries, Migrants, and Defining the Target Language for Bible Translation -- "Their Language Had an Affinity with That of Both of These Nations": African Interpreters, Métissage, and the Dynamics of Linguistic Knowledge Production -- "The Natives. In What Respects, If Any, Do They Differ from the Southern Caffres?": American Missionaries and the Zulu Question -- "To Speak Properly and Correctly, viz. Uku-Kuluma-Nje": Americans, Africans, and Zulu as a Superior Language -- "Many People . . . Explain This Identity Primarily in Terms of the Language They Speak": The Language-Based Zulu-Xhosa Divide in South African Consciousness -- Epilogue.
Abstract:
"This book argues that foreign missionaries and their African interlocutors deliberately forged separate Zulu and Xhosa languages in the nineteenth century, tracing the consequences of this imposed linguistic division through the twentieth century"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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