Unsettling the Ranks: 1930s Zulu-Language Writings on African Progress and Unity in The Bantu World.
While much of the extant scholarship on The Bantu World has addressed the English language content, this article shifts the focus to previously unexplored 1930s Zulu-language writings on African advancement and unity. It makes an intervention into the study of African explorations of the possibiliti...
| Publicado en: | African Studies Vol. 80; no. 3/4; pp. 287 - 310 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=154253191&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 154253191 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00020184 35L jtl: African Studies issn: 00020184 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep-Dec 2021 vid: 80 iid: 3/4 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 154253191 10.1080/00020184.2021.1989285 ppf: 287 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.5MB tig: atl: Unsettling the Ranks: 1930s Zulu-Language Writings on African Progress and Unity in The Bantu World. aug: au: Suriano, Maria Sifelani, Portia affil: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa su: Concord Print culture African languages English language Zulu language Progress Pan-Africanism Patronage sug: subj: Concord Print culture African languages English language Zulu language Progress Pan-Africanism Patronage keyword: African print cultures progress/unity readers' networks The Bantu World Zulu language (isiZulu) ab: While much of the extant scholarship on The Bantu World has addressed the English language content, this article shifts the focus to previously unexplored 1930s Zulu-language writings on African advancement and unity. It makes an intervention into the study of African explorations of the possibilities and limits of progress amidst the abiding challenges and paradoxes of colonial modernity, in a setting characterised by increasing segregation. The Zulu pages, the article claims, enhance our understanding of contributors' involvement in shaping and expanding the very constituency the editor, RV Selope Thema, sought to create. In particular, Zulu-language letters to the editor, often written in response to editorials and articles, convey ideas neither fully anticipated by Thema, nor fully articulated in the more restrained English pages. Located in the rich body of work on African print cultures, the article first discusses the ideologies behind this multilingual weekly newspaper. It then foregrounds the key place of Zulu-language usage in The Bantu World, as well as the (male-dominated) networks, publics and communities of readers created through the vernacular, which flourished despite attempts to marginalise African languages. An examination of key 1930s controversies over the notions of advancement, entrepreneurship and unity shows that the Zulu pages partly destabilised prevalent elite ideas of progress as intertwined with white patronage. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of African Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: African Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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