{"product_id":"learning-zulu-mark-sanders-9780691167565","title":"Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhy are you learning Zulu?\u003c\/i\u003e\" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In \u003ci\u003eLearning Zulu\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex cultural history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerceiving that colonial learners of Zulu saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans, Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of Zulu-language learning--from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity. In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English- and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South Africa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language, \u003ci\u003eLearning Zulu \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how a language's history and politics influence all individuals in a multilingual society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Sanders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691167567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691167565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2016","brand":"Mark Sanders","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48448885915903,"sku":"9780691167565","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0d159088-2ebf-4669-aa5a-ceee09b12245.jpg?v=1777261007","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/learning-zulu-mark-sanders-9780691167565","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}