Angloscene
Author | : Jan Ke-Schutte |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2023 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520389816 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520389816 |
Rating | : 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Download or read book Angloscene written by Jan Ke-Schutte and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.