The Body Geopolitic: Afro-Asian Pluralities and Playful Masculinities in Nigerian Popular Culture.

The article discusses the different modes, material and symbolic in which China emerged as a place, an ethnoracialized and geopolitical entity in the Nigerian cultural imagination including films. Topics include the gendered depictions of Asianness and Black Africanness in audio and visual popular c...

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Publicado en:Black Scholar Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 30 - 42
Autor principal: Lu, Vivian Chenxue
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2024
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Sumario:The article discusses the different modes, material and symbolic in which China emerged as a place, an ethnoracialized and geopolitical entity in the Nigerian cultural imagination including films. Topics include the gendered depictions of Asianness and Black Africanness in audio and visual popular culture, how the Afrobeats music and dances influence the body politic in the Nigerian context and a reference of Jackie Chan's name by Afrobeats stars as a metaphoric method in the fight for love.