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In postcolonial historiography of both Southern Africa and South Asia, the relationship between colonialism and language has predominantly come to be cast in a manner that privileges such African and Asian languages which command substantive constituencies running into millions. In putting together a comparative story of the often-overlooked “small languages” in these two locations over a period of almost ninety years, this lecture attempts to complicate the easy narrative of vernacularity in the Global South. It explores the political implications of the familial model in the European linguistic imagination, the unequal access to and the uneven imprints of print technology, and the halting histories of standardisation and institutionalisation in colonial frontiers. Attention is given not only to the varying textures of the discursive entwinement of the ethnological and the philological but also to the different ways in which the language question came to be bound up with the promise of representative government in late-colonial climates. Excavating the formation of “small languages” in this style, the lecture contends, allows us to rethink the possibilities of anticolonial histories outside the strictures of methodological nationalism.
Speaker:
Dr. Bodhisattva Kar (University of Cape Town)
Moderator:
Dr. Diana M. Natermann (Universität Hamburg)
Information on participating / attending:
Language: English
Attendance: Join this event either on-site or online. If you choose the online format, please do not forget to register.
Date:
01/18/2023 17:00 - 01/18/2023 18:30
Event venue:
Research Centre “Hamburg's (post-)colonial Legacy”, Rothenbaumchausse 34 (mezzanine level entry, on the left side next to Hamburg University Guest House) and online
20148 Hamburg
Hamburg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
History / archaeology, Language / literature
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
12/29/2022
Sender/author:
Verena Schweiger
Department:
Fachabteilung Kommunikation
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event73312
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