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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ke-Schutte, Jay, 1980- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African students--China--Social conditions--21st century.

African students.

College students--China--Social conditions--21st century.

College students.

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

Students, Foreign.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023)

ISBN:

9780520389823

OCLC:

1333930119