{"product_id":"learning-zulu-a-secret-history-of-language-in-south-africa-paperback","title":"Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhy are you learning Zulu?\u003c\/i\u003e\" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In \u003ci\u003eLearning Zulu\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerceiving 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 pidgin Fanagalo among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity. In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English- and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South Africa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language, \u003ci\u003eLearning Zulu \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how a language's history and politics influence all individuals in a multilingual society.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of comparative literature at New York University. His books include \u003ci\u003eComplicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmbiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 04, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52614304858419,"sku":"9780691191461","price":53.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/cDhQUG1KT0RUS3EyTXZtNUVGSDhUdz09.webp?v=1761868540","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/learning-zulu-a-secret-history-of-language-in-south-africa-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}