Language, Culture and Decolonisation

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. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0796926123
• ISBN13: 9780796926128
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.5"