Accented futures : language activism and the ending of apartheid / Carli Coetzee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coetzee, Carli, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--South Africa.

Sociolinguistics.

Translating and interpreting--South Africa.

Translating and interpreting.

Language and education--South Africa.

Language and education.

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this wonderfully original, intensely personal yet deeply analytical work, Carli Coetzee argues that difference and disagreement can be forms of activism to bring about social change, inside and outside the teaching environment. Since it is not the student alone who needs to be transformed, she proposes a model of teaching that is insistent on the teacher's scholarship as a tool for hearing the many voices and accents in the South African classroom. For Coetzee, 'accentedness' is a description for actively working towards the ending of apartheid by being aware of the legacies of the past, without attempting to empty out or gloss over the conflicts and violence that may exist under the surface. In the broad context of education, 'accent' can be an accent of speech; an attitude; a stance against being 'understood'; yet a way of teaching that requires teacher and pupil to understand each other's contexts. This is a book about the relationships created by the use of language to convey knowledge, particularly in translation. The ideas it presents are evocative, thought-provoking and challenging at times. Accented Futures makes a significant and important contribution to research on identity in post-apartheid South Africa as well as to the fields of education and translation studies.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1: Against translation, in defence of accentedness

Chapter 2: There was this missing quotation mark

Chapter 3: Njabulo Ndebele's ordinary address

Chapter 4: Thembinkosi Goniwe's eyes

Chapter 5: A history of translation and non-translation

Chapter 6: The copy and the lost original

Chapter 7: He places his chair against mine and translates

Chapter 8: The multilingual scholar of the future

Chapter 9: A book must be returned to the library from which it was borrowed

Chapter 10: The surprisingly accented classroom

Concluding remarks

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018).

ISBN:

9781868147793

1868147797

9781868147410

186814741X

OCLC:

1016587935