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Interviews with Neville Alexander: The Power of Languages Against the Language of Power

Edited by Brigitta Busch, Edited by Lucijan Busch, Edited by Karen Press

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In a series of interviews conducted in the years preceding his death in 2012, activist and scholar Neville Alexander reflected on how the languages he had used throughout his life shaped his world and his relationships with his immediate and wider communities. A version of these conversations was published in German in 2011 by Drava Verlag. In this reconstruction, the only extensive (auto)biographical work about Alexander in print in English, his belief in the emancipatory potential of multilingualism frames his vividly recalled life and his incisive observations about language in post-apartheid South Africa. He speaks candidly about his childhood in the Eastern Cape, his political awakening and Robben island incarceration. He also gives an insiderâ€™s view of how South Africaâ€™s post- apartheid language dispensation was shaped. The book also includes some of Alexanderâ€™s seminal writings on multilingualism, a rewarding yet often neglected aspect of his work.