Colonial Letters and the Contact of Knowledges
Abstract
- Abstract
- Letters were one of the major means of communication during the 19th-20th Century British colonialism of Africa. Through them, the instructions, intensions, decisions, complaints, justifications and agenda of resident British colonial officers, local colonial administrators and collaborators, colonial officials in Britain and colonised subjects were transmitted across time and space. These letters offer extraordinary access to the mindset and overall agenda of the entities producing them. The ways of life of these entities, their patterns of social order, repertoires and constellations of knowledges, linguistic voices, world views and cosmologies are projected, both directly and indirectly, in these letters. In themselves, these letters embody the contact zone of colonial-precolonial structures, coloniser-colonised entities, indigenous-foreign knowledges, cultural and linguistic practices, etc. This research project studies, from a predominantly linguistic perspective, the instantiations of colonial contact and postcolonial heritages that are embodied in, and transmitted through, letters written during British colonisation of Southern Cameroons (1916-1961). Markers of the construction of multiple identities, the discursive enactment of (social, political, hereditary) power and the coalescence of colonial and precolonial social norms of interaction (hierarchy, respect forms, kinship affiliation) found in these correspondences are studied from sociolinguistic, critical discourse analysis, discourse-historical, postcolonial linguistics, literary and historical perspectives.
People & roles
- Principal Investigator(s)
- Anchimbe, Eric
Origins & context
- Title
- Colonial Letters and the Contact of Knowledges
- Alternative Title
- abj
- Type
- Research project
- Is Part Of
- Knowledges
- is funded by
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University of Bayreuth
- Temporal Coverage
- July 1, 2020 – October 31, 2023
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- UBT_CLnCK2019
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 46271
Linked resources
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- Bakossi Adoptive Rules Kumba Division
- Bali Area Political Situation of - Report on by W. E. Hunt Esquire
- Balong District Assessment Report, Kumba Division, Cameroons Province
- Bamenda Criminal Case No. 20
- Bamenda Divisional Summary
- Bikom Assessment Report, Bamenda Division
- Bikom Chiefship Bamenda Division
- Buea District Assessment Report
- Bum Intelligence Report Bamenda Division
- Cameroons Annual Report
- Cameroons Annual Report
- Cameroons Baptist Mission (USA)
- Cameroons Province Annual Report, 1934
- Cameroons Report for the League of Nations
- Cameroons under United Kingdom Trusteeship
- Chief of Mbiseniku, Bikom District Bamenda Division
- Claim by Mr Bodai against German government (1918-1919)
- Complaints Badchuo Akagbe Native Court (including correspondence about cases and District Officer’s Reviews) Mamfe Division
- Complaints Takamanda Native Court. Including Correspondence about D. O’s Reviews Mamfe Division
- Confidential Native Administration, Mamfe Division
- Convict James Okokwo – Petition for release of
- Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – Programme of Events
- Correspondence in connection with a Re-assessment Report on the Mbonge Clan
- Definition of Public Servants
- Diary by E. G. Hawkesworth, Nso, Nsungli Area, Bamenda Division
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