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Divided by the word : colonial encounters and the remaking of Zulu and Xhosa identities / Jochen S. Arndt.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Arndt, Jochen S., 1972- author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
Series:
Reconsiderations in southern African history
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Language and culture--South Africa--History.
Language and culture.
Zulu language--History.
Zulu language.
Zulu (African people)--Ethnic identity.
Zulu (African people).
Xhosa language--History.
Xhosa language.
Xhosa (African people)--Ethnic identity.
Xhosa (African people).
Missionaries--South Africa--History--19th century.
Missionaries.
Ethnic relations.
History.
Ethnicity.
South Africa--Ethnic relations--History.
South Africa.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps.
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction
"What Does Stick to People-More Than Their Language-Is Their Isibongo": Language and Belonging in South Africa's Deeper Past
"Surrounded on All Sides by People That Differ from Them in Every Point, in Color . . . and in Language": The Birth of the "Caffre" Language Paradigm
"All Speak the Caffre Language": Missionaries, Migrants, and Defining the Target Language for Bible Translation
"Their Language Had an Affinity with That of Both of These Nations": African Interpreters, Métissage, and the Dynamics of Linguistic Knowledge Production
"The Natives. In What Respects, If Any, Do They Differ from the Southern Caffres?": American Missionaries and the Zulu Question
"To Speak Properly and Correctly, viz. Uku-Kuluma-Nje": Americans, Africans, and Zulu as a Superior Language
"Many People . . . Explain This Identity Primarily in Terms of the Language They Speak": The Language-Based Zulu-Xhosa Divide in South African Consciousness
Epilogue.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 28, 2022).
Other Format:
Print version: Arndt, Jochen S., 1972- Divided by the word
ISBN:
9780813947365
0813947367
Publisher Number:
40031075402
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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