Will They Ever Speak with Authority? Race, Post-Coloniality and the Symbolic Violence of Language

Autor/in	Ibrahim, Awad
Titel	Will They Ever Speak with Authority? Race, Post-Coloniality and the Symbolic Violence of Language
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43 (2011) 6, S.619-635 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00644.x
Schlagwörter	Race; Language; Power Structure; High School Students; French; Trauma; Foreign Countries; Africa; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; Languages; Sprache; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Französisch; Ausland; Afrika; Kanada
Abstract	Intersecting authority-language-and-symbolic power, this article tells the story of a group of continental Francophone African youth who find themselves in an urban French-language high school in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Through their narrative, one is confronted by the trauma of one's own language being declared an illegitimate child, hence becoming a "deceptive fluency" in the "eyes of power" thanks to race and post-coloniality. They are fully consciousness of this situation and their "linguistic return", thus gazing back at the eyes of power and declaring themselves "subjects" capable of love and desire. I briefly address questions of hospitality and language ownership and conclude by addressing the need to re-think the connection between race, power and language. (As Provided).
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