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Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Mark Sanders
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| Series | Translation/Transnation |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:208 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 156 |
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| Category/Genre | Historical and comparative linguistics
Literary studies - general |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691191461
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| Classifications | Dewey:496.398609 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
4 June 2019 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
"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 eleme
Author Biography
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"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." * Choice * "Well written and well researched. . . . The book is a good testimony of resistance and survival of the Zulu people, culture, and isiZulu the language."---Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers, African Studies Quarterly
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