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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- Mamfe Native Court Constitution
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- Mbembe Marriage Customs
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- Native Court Victoria: Loss of Money
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- Questions of primitive communities evolving
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- Report on Native Customs the Bakweri Tribe Victoria Division
- Rex versus Epeleki of Fontem: Charge, Manslaughter
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