Naming and Othering in Africa: Imagining Supremacy and Inferiority through Language

ISBN-13: 9780367773106 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 206 str.

Sambulo Ndlovu

Opis

This book examines how names in Africa have been fashioned to create dominance and subjugation, inclusion and exclusion, others and self. Highlighting social power dynamics through onomastics, this book will be of interest to researchers of onomastics, social anthropology, sociolinguistics and African culture and history.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction   SECTION ONE: GLOBAL, CULTURAL AND ETHNOPHAULIC NOMEN OTHERING OF AFRICA   Chapter 2: Africa and global onomastic othering dichotomies  Chapter 3: Names as cultural othering of Africa  Chapter 4: Ethnophaulisms as crude nomen othering in African contexts  SECTION TWO: SELFING AND OTHERING IN COLONIAL AND DE-COLONIAL ONOMASTICS IN AFRICA  Chapter 5: Umlungu/Mzungu/Oborofo decoloniality and coloniality nuances  Chapter 6: Onomastic attestations of coloniality in Africa  Chapter 7: Colonial othering of African anthroponymy  SECTION THREE: NAMES AS EXHIBITS OF GENDERED, DISABLIST, EXCLUSION AND SEXIST SUBALTERNITIES IN AFRICAN CONTEXTS  Chapter 8: The woman other in African names and naming  Chapter 9: Disablist, homophobic and sexist nomen othering in Africa  Chapter 10: Socio-political onomastic exclusions in Africa  Chapter 11: Conclusions and recommendations

O autorze

Sambulo Ndlovu is a Humbolt Research Fellow at the Institut fur Ethnologie und Afrikanstudien at Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany and a Professor at Great Zimbabwe University.