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This book provides an insight into the complex entanglements between African countries and India, China, and South Korea from multidisciplinary perspectives connecting approaches from cultural, anthropological, literary, and music studies and art history. The three parts present a regional focus, namely Africa-India, Africa-South Korea, and Africa-China while the single contributions speak to each other and offer complementary insights. At the same time, the chapters also link across the regional realms as they deal with similar topics, such as travelling music genres. In part I, for Pombo material culture is the starting point to investigate the connections between the islands of the Indian Ocean and India by questioning the construction of memory. It highlights various aspects of the multilayered history of connections between Africa, the islands, and India. Part II gathers contributions that are complimentary to each other and therefore contribute to the understanding of the complex entanglements in area studies. Part III (Africa-South Korea) explores the impact of African-American arts and artists on South Korea's popular culture as well as the changing perception of artists of African descent in visual popular culture. It shows the impact of Korean content in South Africa.
List of contents
Introduction.- I Africa-India.- Ch 1 Global circulating educational concepts and multiplicities of contexts in India and Africa - a relational perspective on the educational sector.- Ch 2 searching for materialities, visual cultures and art practices on African heritages in Indian Ocean islands.- Ch 3 Mombasa, Mother of the World: Sounding Hadrami Diasporic Space on the Kenyan Coast.- Ch 4 Africa-Asia: Literary Relationalities.- Ch 5 Carving Out the Local: Poetry by Ustadh Mau and its Indian Ocean Ties.- II Africa-China.- China in Africa: Liminally positioned in/to 'the Global South'.- Re-burying the Remains of Chinese Martyrs: The Rumours, Controversies and Revised Solidarities of the New TAZARA Memorial Park in Zambia.- "Black and Yellow": African Hip Hop Singer and Chinese Racial Nationalism.- III Africa-South Korea.- Africa and African Artists in popular visual culture in South Korea.- Take off the Blinkers: From TV to Web, from the North to the South.- Imagined Encounters, Cultural Patterns and Asia-Africa Intersections.- My Utopia.
About the author
Ute Fendler holds the chair of Romance and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bayreuth. She is the deputy spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence "Africa Multiple. Her research interests cover literature and film cultures of the Caribbean, West Africa, the Indian Ocean, and South America.
Yongkyu Chang is a professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea and teaches in the Division of African Studies and Graduate School of International Area Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology at KwaZulu-Natal University in South Africa and researched various social and cultural issues across Africa. He has expertise in African belief systems and currently working on a project exploring spirit possession in Zanzibar.
