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Divided by the word : colonial encounters and the remaking of Zulu and Xhosa identities / Jochen S. Arndt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arndt, Jochen S., 1972- author.
- 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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