We Speak in the Shadow of the Tongues They Took
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natural language processingType de record:
paper
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Sip
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Pol
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This chapter explores the impact of losing one’s language due to colonial violence and missionary education in black communities in South Africa. The author knits multi-generational conversations together in poetry to reflect on how the unapologetic imposition of English unravels linguistic threads which connect her to women in her community. The poetry is divided into three sections,
Death, Mourning,
and
The unveiling,
to mirror burial rituals in isiXhosa communities, and thus the occupation of the hybrid space between life and death, not of the body, but the tongue.
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