Full Description
This book explores the media and cultural exchanges between Africa and China in the twenty-first century against the backdrop of the rise of Africa and China in global geopolitics. It situates these cultural encounters in historical and contemporary contexts and through the critical lens of the Global South. It identifies a rising Global South consciousness, despite lingering historical entanglements and emotional ambivalences that continue to characterise Africa-China relations.
Bringing together scholars from various disciplines and from different parts of the world, this book examines a wide range of cultural expressions such as arts, literature, translated works, traditional and digital media artefacts and services, and film festivals. It also interrogates emerging cultural interactions, experiences and practices engendered by the increasingly digitalised information and communication technology infrastructure underpinning Africa-China connections and links. In doing so, the book contributes to a more nuanced understanding of Africa-China relations today and the concept of the Global South.
Contents
Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations Part I. Africa-China Representations in Artistic and Literary Works 1. Malema Mirrors Mao, Fanon Faces Dao: Reimagining Afro-Asian Solidarities Through the Activation of Revolutionary Portraits 2. An Eastern Gaze: Reconsidering 'African Art' from a Chinese Perspective 3. Yvonne Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea: Against the Instrumentalisation of History in the Sino-African Indian Ocean World 4. Reading Yvonne Owuor's Political and Ecocritical Projects through Sino-African Relations in The Dragonfly Sea 5. Translating the Global South: Chinese Culture 'Going Global' through English-translated Chinese Literature Part II. Africa-China Encounters, Experiences and Interactions in Technologically Mediated Environments 6. Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus 7. Global South Ally and Leader: China's Image Building in Africa through the Development Assistance Projects of Pay-TV Company StarTimes 8. #ChinaMustExplain: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Stigmatisation of Africans in China 9. Rethinking China's Engagement with the Global South through 'Racial' Lenses 10. Assembling the Queer Global South: Asian Pacific Queer Film Festival Alliance and Regional Collaboration 11. The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa
