{"title":"A&Q I: Weaving as \"Eternal Penelopes\": Queerness and Intimate Ecologies in an Interview with Ananda Devi","authors":"Eric J. Disbro, A. Devi","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133744723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay examines the role of music in twentieth-century Africa–China relations by analyzing musical performances' contribution to the production and circulation of knowledge about Africa in China through musical imagination. Drawing on archival and multimedia sources, this essay focuses on the figure of Zhu Mingying—an influential Chinese musician in the twentieth century—as a case study to analyze how African imagery is deployed and circulated in music making and marketing practices in China, as well as its implications for developments in Africa–China relations. This essay contributes to a growing body of scholarship on Africa–China relations that addresses the humanistic as opposed to popular metanarratives of trade, aid, security, and investment.
{"title":"\"Sound of Friendship\": Music Iconography in Twentieth-Century Africa–China Relations","authors":"I. Suglo","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the role of music in twentieth-century Africa–China relations by analyzing musical performances' contribution to the production and circulation of knowledge about Africa in China through musical imagination. Drawing on archival and multimedia sources, this essay focuses on the figure of Zhu Mingying—an influential Chinese musician in the twentieth century—as a case study to analyze how African imagery is deployed and circulated in music making and marketing practices in China, as well as its implications for developments in Africa–China relations. This essay contributes to a growing body of scholarship on Africa–China relations that addresses the humanistic as opposed to popular metanarratives of trade, aid, security, and investment.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"227 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131883272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Portfolio: Carved Designs, Thresholds, and Indian Ocean Visual Affinities: The Case of Monkey Heads and Tolla","authors":"Janis Purdy","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123274947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In South Africa and beyond, Chinese and Indian indenture and diasporas have been rarely examined comparatively, and their racialization even less. Drawing from archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in Johannesburg, this essay illuminates the coeval migratory paths and racialization processes of Chinese and Indian peoples over South Africa's long twentieth century (1860 to present). I theorize the enduring logics, forms, and adjacencies of Asian racialization. Adjacency names a proximate relation of Chinese and Indians appearing side by side in archives, overlapping migrations, and fraught intimacies. Adjacency characterizes their categorical proximity as "Asian," "Asiatic," and "Coolie" in relation to "Black" and "white," and the irreducible gap of difference. The essay offers a framework for locating Afro-Asian formations at the interstices of China-Africa, Afro-Asian, and Indian Ocean studies.
{"title":"Afro-Asian Adjacencies in South Africa's Long Twentieth Century","authors":"Mingwei Huang","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In South Africa and beyond, Chinese and Indian indenture and diasporas have been rarely examined comparatively, and their racialization even less. Drawing from archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in Johannesburg, this essay illuminates the coeval migratory paths and racialization processes of Chinese and Indian peoples over South Africa's long twentieth century (1860 to present). I theorize the enduring logics, forms, and adjacencies of Asian racialization. Adjacency names a proximate relation of Chinese and Indians appearing side by side in archives, overlapping migrations, and fraught intimacies. Adjacency characterizes their categorical proximity as \"Asian,\" \"Asiatic,\" and \"Coolie\" in relation to \"Black\" and \"white,\" and the irreducible gap of difference. The essay offers a framework for locating Afro-Asian formations at the interstices of China-Africa, Afro-Asian, and Indian Ocean studies.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127502938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Moment of Kinship in Unexpected Places","authors":"Bettina Ng’weno","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133810261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Born in Portuguese Goa in 1929, trained in art in metropolitan Portugal while the empire was being decolonized in the 1960s, and then exiled in postcolonial Mozambique in the 1970s, Vamona Navelcar became an artist of three continents not solely by choice. Even as his work chronicles these diverse locations, these very transits have made Navelcar's legacy verge on disappearance. As this article argues, it is the politics of nationalism at the three continental sites that constitute Navelcar's life cartography that has defined this artist's trajectory and obscured his oeuvre. Although Navelcar's life and artistic connections across the Lusophonic Indian Ocean world demonstrate its multiplicities and convergences, it is the fixity of nation(s) that has undermined the complexity of such heritage and the artist's legacy.
{"title":"Canvas Adrift: Vamona Navelcar, Artist of the Unframed Ocean","authors":"R. Ferrão, Vishvesh Kandolkar","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Born in Portuguese Goa in 1929, trained in art in metropolitan Portugal while the empire was being decolonized in the 1960s, and then exiled in postcolonial Mozambique in the 1970s, Vamona Navelcar became an artist of three continents not solely by choice. Even as his work chronicles these diverse locations, these very transits have made Navelcar's legacy verge on disappearance. As this article argues, it is the politics of nationalism at the three continental sites that constitute Navelcar's life cartography that has defined this artist's trajectory and obscured his oeuvre. Although Navelcar's life and artistic connections across the Lusophonic Indian Ocean world demonstrate its multiplicities and convergences, it is the fixity of nation(s) that has undermined the complexity of such heritage and the artist's legacy.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114188608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neelima Jeychandran, S. Srinivas, P. Machado, Bettina Ng’weno
{"title":"Field Trip: The Indian Ocean Turn: New Perspectives and Approaches from the Field","authors":"Neelima Jeychandran, S. Srinivas, P. Machado, Bettina Ng’weno","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134532252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"History from Below\": Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies as Postcolonial Historical Fiction","authors":"Turni Chakrabarti","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131284547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article examines Dennis Brutus's China Poems (1975). A South African poet and anti-apartheid activist, Brutus wrote the volume while visiting the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1973. Brutus imagines revolutionary China through a minimalist form, which was inspired by the traditional Chinese jueju (绝句), as well as Mao Zedong's own poetry. I argue that the volume entangles literary form and a materialist "concept of history" (Jameson) to symbolically recognize the PRC, resulting in a literary realpolitik designed to pressure the apartheid regime. This analysis also points to an Indian Ocean network of world literature by exploring a Cold War trajectory between South Africa and China.
{"title":"A South African Imaginary of Maoist China: The Curious Case of Dennis Brutus's China Poems (1975)","authors":"Duncan M. Yoon","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines Dennis Brutus's China Poems (1975). A South African poet and anti-apartheid activist, Brutus wrote the volume while visiting the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1973. Brutus imagines revolutionary China through a minimalist form, which was inspired by the traditional Chinese jueju (绝句), as well as Mao Zedong's own poetry. I argue that the volume entangles literary form and a materialist \"concept of history\" (Jameson) to symbolically recognize the PRC, resulting in a literary realpolitik designed to pressure the apartheid regime. This analysis also points to an Indian Ocean network of world literature by exploring a Cold War trajectory between South Africa and China.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125273984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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