Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Language and decoloniality in context 1
5. 1. Language and liberation 19
6. 2. Decolonisation and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Circulations and language in the postcolonial world 35
7. 3. Language in Africa and the impossibility of an African philosophy of liberation 47
8. 4. The place of colonial languages in decolonial philosophy and practice 65
9. 5. Decolonising the language of personhood 83
10. 6. African literature as self-interpretive: The prospects of indigenous reading modes 95
11. 7. Cultural decolonisation and the (im)possibilities of literary language 117
12. 8. Revealing the power of language and developing theory from historical artefacts 131
13. 9. Colonialism, politics of belonging and reinvention of African cultures: The case of South Africa 153
14. 10. The turn to tradition: Colonialism, class and the making of Zulu identity 167
15. 11. The politics of knowledge production and publishing: The case of the Zulu Society 191
16. 12. Minority language revitalisation: European conundrums 207
17. Contributors 229
18. Index 233