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Language, globalization and the making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen / Sabrina Billings.
Van Pelt Library PE3432.T36 B55 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Billings, Sabrina J.
- Series:
- Encounters ; 2.
- Encounters ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Social aspects--Tanzania.
- English language.
- Beauty contests.
- Rhetoric.
- Language and languages.
- Social aspects.
- English language--Social aspects.
- Tanzania--Languages--Social aspects.
- Tanzania.
- English language--Tanzania--Rhetoric.
- Beauty contests--Tanzania.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2013.
- Summary:
- Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers the real-life effects, both on- and off-stage, of language policy, education, and gender dynamics for the women competing in the pageants. While highlighting many contestants' struggles for escape from poverty and patriarchy, the book also emphasizes their creative strategies - linguistic and otherwise - for bettering their lives and shows how people living in a global economic periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Language Ideologies, Linguistic Registers and the Sociolinguistic Landscape of Swahili and English in Tanzania 31
- 3 'From the Geneva of Africa': Beauty Pageants, National Culture and Tanzanian Femininity 55
- 4 'I Am Very Good at Expressing Myself, Especially in English': The Packaging of Privilege in the Making of Tanzanian Beauty Queens 90
- 5 'Education is the Key of Life': Contestants as Schoolgirls in Pursuit of an Escape 124
- 6 'Which is Your Favourite Color?' Race and Ethnicity in a Color-Blind Tanzania 153
- 7 Kutafuta Maisha: 'Looking for a Life' from the Edge of the Globe 180.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783090747
- 178309074X
- 9781783090754
- 1783090758
- OCLC:
- 852220704
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