Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa
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Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa
By (Author) Mark Sanders
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
13th August 2019
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
496.398609
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
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
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
Author Bio
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.
