My tribe is the Hessequa. I’m Khoisan. I’m African’
Language, desire and performance among Cape Town’s Khoisan language activists
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 11293378 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Justin C Brown (0000-0001-7540-4913, University of Cape Town, autor de correspondencia), Justin Brown (0000-0002-2915-0673), Ana Deumert (0000-0002-0199-8955, University of Cape Town, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2017 |
| Volumen | 36 |
| Número | 5 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2017-01-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Multilingua (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0167-8507 • E-ISSN: 1613-3684 |
| Editorial | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/multi-2017-3046 |
| OpenAlex | W2755831391 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 15 |
| Referencias citadas | 24 |
In this article we provide a discussion of present-day Khoisan activism in Cape Town, South Africa. The main actors in this movement are people whose heritage is complex: their history can be traced back to the early days of the colonial settlement, reflecting the interactions and cohabitation of the indigenous Khoisan, slaves and the European settlers. Currently, their main languages are English and Afrikaans; yet, efforts are also made by activists to learn Khoekhoegwab. In discussing the Khoisan resurgence we draw on a wide range of sources. The data include: in-depth interviews with language activists; video and audio recordings of ceremonies and other cultural events; discussions and performance of language and identity on blogs and tweets; newspapers; linguistic landscapes; and, finally, artistic performances (with particular focus on the hiphop opera
Archaeology · Cape · Colonialism · Indigenous · Indigenous language · Linguistic landscape · Linguistics · Literacy · Media studies · Newspaper · Orality · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Tribe · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · History · Multilingual Education and Policy · South African History and Culture
Everything We Do Is About Our History
Khoisan Consciousness
From Silence to Silencing? Contradictions and Tensions in Language Revitalization
Listening versus Lingwashing
A politics of reminding
Settler colonialism and therapeutic discourses on the past
Cultural trauma, becomings and decolonial identity-making
Addressing Harms and Restoring Dignity
The Decolonial Turn in Khoisan Studies
KhoeSan Identity and Language in South Africa
Feeling their way through their cultural roots
Transgressing the urban–rural divide alongside newly identifying Indigenous people in South Africa
Insurgent words
Authenticity and decolonization
Sensing indigeneity
Langa
I write what I like
Competence in performance
Interaction Ritual
Languages of Africa
‘God Made the White Man, God Made the Black Man…’
Language, identity, performance
Ons is Boesmans
Not Black Enough’
Envisioning ancestors
The construction of peoplehood
The Informal Trade of Medicinal Plants by Rastafari Bush Doctors in the Western Cape of South Africa
Defining the new speaker
Anthropology and the problems of alterity and location
Staging language on Corsica
Experiencing language
Twenty-first century indigenism
Creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and degeneracy
Battling the Race
Consumption
Greeting rituals as everyday management of differences among RasTafari groups in Stellenbosch
Coat of Arms and the Body Politic
From Manenberg to Soweto
| Obras citantes distintas | 15 |
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| Citas por año | 1,88 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 13 |