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Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa
Mark Sanders
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Description for Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa
Hardback. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2HCBZ; CFF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Why are you learning Zulu? When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans, Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of Zulu-language learning--from the emergence of the ... Read more
Why are you learning Zulu? When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans, Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of Zulu-language learning--from the emergence of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Translation/Transnation
Condition
New
Weight
472g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691167565
SKU
V9780691167565
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About Mark Sanders
Mark Sanders is professor of comparative literature at New York University. His books include Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid and Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission.
Reviews for Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times In this deeply introspective memoir, Sanders focuses on his quest to learn the Zulu language... A valuable resource for history and political science as well as language.
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