
Interviews with Neville Alexander
The Power of Languages Against the Language of Power
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-86914-277-3 (ISBN)
Description
In a series of interviews conducted between 2006 and 2010, activist and scholar Neville Alexander reflected on how the languages he had used throughout his life shaped his world and his relationships with his immediate and wider communities. A version of these conversations was published in German in 2011 by Drava Verlag.
In this reconstruction, the only extensive (auto)biographical work about Alexander in print in English, his belief in the emancipatory potential of multilingualism frames his vividly recalled life and his incisive observations about language in post-apartheid South Africa. He speaks candidly about his childhood in the Eastern Cape, his political awakening and Robben Island incarceration. He also gives an insider's view of how South Africa's post- apartheid language dispensation was shaped. The book also includes some of Alexander's seminal writings on multilingualism, a rewarding yet often neglected aspect of his work.
In this reconstruction, the only extensive (auto)biographical work about Alexander in print in English, his belief in the emancipatory potential of multilingualism frames his vividly recalled life and his incisive observations about language in post-apartheid South Africa. He speaks candidly about his childhood in the Eastern Cape, his political awakening and Robben Island incarceration. He also gives an insider's view of how South Africa's post- apartheid language dispensation was shaped. The book also includes some of Alexander's seminal writings on multilingualism, a rewarding yet often neglected aspect of his work.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Scottsville, Kwazulu-Natal
South Africa
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86914-277-3 (9781869142773)
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Persons
Brigitta Busch is a professor of applied linguistics at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Lucijan Busch lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Karen Press is a Cape Town, south Africa based writer and editor.
Lucijan Busch lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Karen Press is a Cape Town, south Africa based writer and editor.