Afrikaans was born from enslaved women’s kitchen communication with their owners.
Evidence
In these originating linguistic sites the language of apartheid was born in the demands of cultural translation. If post-apartheid South Africa has a lingua franca, an indigenously prompted language more or less universally available to its heterogeneous population, it may now be Afrikaans rather than – or at least alongside and interactive with – the more globally prompted commercial and administrative univeralism of English. Or at least a patois at the inter-tongue, so to speak, of various local languages. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1337
Categorization
- CANDY: A compact, striking fact: the language of apartheid apotheosized from the kitchens where enslaved women translated for their owners.
- XREF: Creole languages arising in sites of intimacy and domination connect to the contact/institution gap theme across the reader’s axes. — connects to: Afrikaans was born in enslaved women’s kitchens as a language of cultural translation — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1337; Afrikaans was born in the kitchen translation demands of enslavement.
Broader Connections
- Afrikaans was born in enslaved women’s kitchens as a language of cultural translation
#corroborates(1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1337 - Afrikaans was born in the kitchen translation demands of enslavement.
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