Research Catalog

Title

Naming and othering in Africa : imagining supremacy and inferiority through language / Sambulo Ndlovu.

Author

Ndlovu, Sambulo

Publication

• London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

x, 206 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book examines how names in Africa have been fashioned to create dominance and subjugation, inclusion and exclusion, others and self. Drawing on global and African examples, but with particular reference to Zimbabwe, the author demonstrates how names are used as weapons by in-groups and out-groups in class, race, ethnic, national, gender, sexuality, religious and business struggles in society. Using Othering theory as a framework, the chapters explore themes such as globalised names and their demonstration of the other, onomastic erasure in colonial naming and the subsequent decoloniality in African name changes, othering of women in onomastics and crude and sophisticated phaulisms in the areas of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, sexuality. Highlighting social power dynamics through onomastics, this book will be of interest to researchers of onomastics, social anthropology, sociolinguistics and African culture and history"--

Series Statement

Routledge African studies

Uniform Title

Routledge African studies.

Subject

• African languages > Etymology > Names
• Names, African > Social aspects
• Onomastics
• African languages > Social aspects
• Dominance (Psychology)
• Other (Philosophy)
• Other minds (Theory of knowledge)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Africa and global onomastic othering dichotomies -- Names as cultural othering of Africa -- Ethnophaulisms as crude nomen othering in African contexts -- Umlungu/Mzungu/Oborofo decoloniality and coloniality nuances -- Onomastic attestations of coloniality in Africa -- Colonial othering of African anthroponymy -- The woman other in African names and naming -- Disablist, homophobic and sexist nomen othering in Africa -- Socio-political onomastic exclusions in Africa -- Conclusions and recommendations.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-10209

ISBN

• 9780367773106
• 0367773104
• 9780367773151
• 0367773155

LCCN

2021028743

OCLC

1268121884

Author

Ndlovu, Sambulo, author.

Title

Naming and othering in Africa : imagining supremacy and inferiority through language / Sambulo Ndlovu.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge African studies

Routledge African studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-10209