Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes on Terminology
Introduction
1. "What Does Stick to People—More Than Their Language—Is Their Isibongo": Language and Belonging in South Africa’s Deeper Past
2. "Surrounded on All Sides by People That Differ from Them in Every Point, in Color... and in Language": The Birth of the "Caffre" Language Paradigm
3. "All Speak the Caffre Language": Missionaries, Migrants, and Defining the Target Language for Bible Translation
4. "Their Language Had an Affinity with That of Both of These Nations": African Interpreters, Métissage, and the Dynamics of Linguistic Knowledge Production
5. "The Natives. In What Respects, If Any, Do They Differ from the Southern Caffres?": American Missionaries and the Zulu Question
6. "To Speak Properly and Correctly, viz. Uku-Kuluma-Nje": Americans, Africans, and Zulu as a Superior Language
7. "Many People... Explain This Identity Primarily in Terms of the Language They Speak": The Language-Based Zulu-Xhosa Divide in South African Consciousness
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index