Divided by the Word: Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities

by Jochen S Arndt and Jochen S. Arndt

Divided by the Word refutes the assumption that the entrenched ethnic divide between South Africa's Zulus and Xhosas, a divide that turned deadly in the late 1980s, is elemental to both societies. Jochen Arndt reveals how the current distinction between the two groups emerged from a long and complex interplay of indigenous and foreign-born actors, with often diverging ambitions and relationships to the world they shared and the languages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813947359
• ISBN13: 9780813947358
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"