Domination and Resistance in Africa: the Linguistic issue

Authors

  • Ângela Lamas Rodrigues UFSC

Keywords:

cultural domination, African indigenous languages, European languages, cultural resistance

Abstract

The present work claims that the official use of European languages in African countries, English in particular, is associated with a project of neocolonial domination and reinforces processes of political and social exclusion as well as specific forms of resistance that attempt to rescue, promote, and protect African indigenous languages.

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Author Biography

  • Ângela Lamas Rodrigues, UFSC
    Doutora em Letras/Literaturas de língua inglesa pela UFSC, é professora da mesma universidade. Publicou os artigos Beyond Nativism: na Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong'o na revista Research in African Literatures e The spectacular death of anxiety: a reading of Greenaway's Prospero's Books na revista Ipotesi.

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Published

2005-12-30

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 19 (2005): África, new pathways

Section

Literature Articles

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Domination and Resistance in Africa: the Linguistic issue. (2005). Gragoatá, 10(19). https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33261