Publications
Publication details [#12600]
Irvine, Judith T. 2001. The Family Romance of Colonial Linguistics. Gender and family in nineteenth-century representations of African languages. In Gal, Susan and Kathryn Woolard. Languages and Publics. The Making of Authority. (Encounters 2). St Jerome. pp. 13–29.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
In her analysis of nineteenth-century philological categorizations genealogical relationships of African languages, the author underlines that any such theories are the product of historical moments that involve ideologies of gender, racial and political hierarchies.