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Record Nr.

UNINA9910833000503321

Autore

Ke-Schutte Jay

Titolo

Angloscene : Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations / / Jay Ke-Schutte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

9780520389823

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/982996051

Soggetti

African students - China - Social conditions - 21st century

College students - China - Social conditions - 21st century

Students, Foreign - Social aspects - China - 21st century

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Personhood -- 1 Chronotopes of the Angloscene -- 2 The Purple Cow Paradox -- 3 Who Can Be a Racist? Or, How to Do Things with Personhood -- Part II Compromise -- 4 How Paper Tigers Kill -- 5 Ubuntu/Guanxi and the Pragmatics of Translation -- 6 Liberal-Racisms and Invisible Orders -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General index

Sommario/riassunto

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Angloscene examines Afro-Chinese interactions within Beijing's aspirationally cosmopolitan student class. Jay Ke-Schutte explores the ways in which many contemporary interactions between Chinese and African university students are mediated through complex intersectional relationships with whiteness, the English language, and cosmopolitan aspiration. At the heart of these tensions, a question persistently emerges: How does English become more than a language—and whiteness more than a race? Engaging in this inquiry, Ke-Schutte explores twenty-first century Afro-Chinese encounters as translational events that diagram the



discursive contours of a changing transnational political order—one that will certainly be shaped by African and Chinese relations.