Rachael Gilmour

Grammars of Colonialism

Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century South Africa. This important book examines a wide range of representations of the South African Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu, in travel narratives, as well as grammars, dictionaries and reading books, revealing the ways in which colonial linguistics contributed to the making of the colonial order, but also the instabilities at the heart of this project to 'make sense' of South Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-3381-2
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781403933812
• ISBN-10: 1403933812
• Artikelnr.: 22604853

Autorenporträt

RACHAEL GILMOUR is Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Language in the Land of the 'Hottentots' and 'Caffres': European Travellers in the Eastern Cape, 1652-1806 Of Translation and Transformations: The Beginnings of Missionary Linguistics in South Africa Studying Language in the 'Moral Wilderness': Methodist Missionaries on the Eastern Cape Frontier Language, Culture, and 'The Native Mind': Missionary Language Study in Natal and the Zulu Kingdom From Languages to Language: The Comparative Philologist in South Africa Conclusion Index

Rezensionen

'G[ilmour] has a good command of the source material; her style is lucid and readable; and she deftly weaves linguistic and sociopolitical threads together, from the critical perspective of postcolonial studies.' - Paul T. Roberge, Historiographia Linguistica

'Gilmour knows how languages work and she has provided an excellent foundation for the study of their history.' - Patrick Harries, Journal of Southern African Studies