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Q3 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.1163/18757421-05301000
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The Indigenous Origin of Intermediality in Nigerian Stand-up Comedy 尼日利亚单口喜剧中中间性的土著起源
Q3 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.1163/18757421-bja00007
Izuu Nwankwọ, Samuel O. Chukwu-Okoronkwo
Abstract Intermediality, a conflation of different artistic media into one event, is typically considered to have developed in the West. In this paper, we argue that intermediality existed in pre-colonial performance traditions across Africa, where various modes of artistic enactments merged into one were preferred to enactments partitioned into different generic categories. This study identifies multiple artistic genres inherent in Nigerian stand-up art, with specific reference to various sets of Ayo Makun’s AY Live wherein we identify the blending of joke-telling, theatre, cinema, song performance and dance within each show. We trace indigenous origins of this conflation of forms by illustrating how delineations between “types” of play, as seen in AY Live , did not exist in indigenous performances. This paper thus, extends research on intermediality and African popular culture by detailing the ways in which Nigerian stand-up enactments are packaged as total entertainment in the manner of pre-existing indigenous performances.
中介性(Intermediality)是指将不同的艺术媒介融合到一个事件中,通常被认为是在西方发展起来的。在本文中,我们认为中间性存在于整个非洲的前殖民表演传统中,在那里,各种艺术制定模式合并为一个比划分为不同一般类别的制定更受欢迎。本研究确定了尼日利亚单口相声艺术中固有的多种艺术类型,具体参考了Ayo Makun的AY Live的各种设置,其中我们确定了每个节目中讲笑话,戏剧,电影,歌曲表演和舞蹈的融合。我们通过说明在AY Live中看到的“类型”之间的描述如何在土著表演中不存在,来追溯这种形式合并的土著起源。因此,本文扩展了对中间性和非洲流行文化的研究,详细介绍了尼日利亚单口相声表演以预先存在的土著表演的方式被包装为完全娱乐的方式。
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South African Literature and the “Strange Seductiveness” of the Fantastic 南非文学与奇幻小说的“奇异诱惑”
Q3 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-30 DOI: 10.1163/18757421-bja00006
Lobna Ben Salem
In Postcolonial literature, magic realism and science fiction are two sub-genres that have worked diligently to contest realism as a western novelistic tradition. In the South African context, the fantastic initiates a process of psychic liberation from old (White) world narrative domination and its cognitive codes. It recapitulates problems of historical consciousness in (post)apartheid cultures and interrogates inherited notions of imperial history. This paper reads two “fantastic” texts that belong to a similar post-colonial culture—South Africa—and strives to explain the ways in which these texts recapitulate, in both their narrative discourse and their thematic content, the “real” social and historical context in which (post)apartheid South African culture existed and thrived. Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying and Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City use magic realism and science fiction respectively to re-view and debunk inherited literary modes of colonial discourse and to work towards more authentic yet challenging “codes of recognition”. By so doing, they offer positive and liberating responses to new emerging cultural forms.
在后殖民文学中,魔幻现实主义和科幻小说是两个孜孜不倦地与现实主义作为西方小说传统相抗衡的子类型。在南非语境中,奇幻小说开启了一个从旧(白人)世界叙事统治及其认知编码中解放精神的过程。它重述了(后)种族隔离文化中的历史意识问题,并质疑了帝国历史的传统观念。本文阅读了两个“梦幻般的”文本,它们属于一个类似的后殖民文化——南非——并努力解释这些文本在叙事话语和主题内容中概括(后)种族隔离南非文化存在和繁荣的“真实”社会和历史背景的方式。Zakes Mda的《死亡之道》和Lauren Beukes的《动物园城》分别使用魔幻现实主义和科幻小说来重新审视和揭露殖民话语的继承文学模式,并致力于更真实但更具挑战性的“识别代码”。通过这样做,他们对新兴的文化形式提供了积极和解放的回应。
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Othering the Laughable 其他的都很可笑
Q3 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1163/18757421-bja00005
Chekwube Anyaegbunam
This article reviews the incongruity, the superiority, and the relief theories of humour. Challenging the dominant notion of humour as a coping mechanism, it explores humour’s potential for positive transformation. It investigates the uses of humour in Nigeria, including its social and even unsuspected psychological functions. It also inquires into the problem of a seeming rising incidence of unhappiness among Nigerians despite their much-vaunted humorous nature and despite the relief theory of humour being the dominant perspective in humour studies. By spotlighting the synergy of activism and art in humour, subliminal tendencies, and Nigerians’ distinct comic intelligence, the article attempts a nuanced analysis of the production and consumption of humour, with an accent on the growing activist-oriented humour on social media platforms, particularly Twitter. In contrast to traditional stand-up comedy, this activist-oriented humour is found to be generally geared towards real-time impact through a combined deployment of words and actions. The research puts forward illustrative examples of how social media humour has surpassed other more orthodox comedic practices and thereby engendered remarkable social and political impacts in Nigeria.
本文综述了幽默的不协调性理论、幽默的优越性理论和幽默的救济理论。它挑战了幽默作为一种应对机制的主流观念,探讨了幽默积极转化的潜力。它调查了幽默在尼日利亚的使用,包括它的社会功能,甚至是意想不到的心理功能。它还探讨了尼日利亚人似乎越来越不快乐的问题,尽管他们非常自吹自擂的幽默天性,尽管幽默的缓解理论是幽默研究的主导观点。通过强调幽默、潜意识倾向和尼日利亚人独特的喜剧智慧中激进主义和艺术的协同作用,这篇文章试图对幽默的生产和消费进行细致入微的分析,重点是社交媒体平台(尤其是Twitter)上日益增长的激进主义导向的幽默。与传统的单口喜剧相比,这种以激进主义为导向的幽默通常通过言语和行动的结合来实现实时影响。该研究提出了一些说明性的例子,说明社交媒体幽默如何超越其他更正统的喜剧实践,从而在尼日利亚产生了显著的社会和政治影响。
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Societal Hegemony and the Evolution of Masculinity in Francis Selormey’s The Narrow Path and Asare Konadu’s A Woman in Her Prime 弗朗西斯·塞洛米的《狭窄的道路》和阿萨雷·科纳杜的《盛年的女人》中的社会霸权与男性气质的演变
Q3 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1163/18757421-bja00004
Emma Duncan, T. Ennin
Francis Selormey’s The Narrow Path and Asare Konadu’s A Woman in Her Prime are two novels that add to the rich Ghanaian literary tradition through their exploration of human relationships and the roles men play in these relationships. Despite gaining a cult readership, these texts have largely been ignored by scholars. This paper examines the men in these texts to reveal the images of masculinities presented and show whether or not they follow society’s hegemonic model or create their own paths. This paper argues that the societies presented by these novels do not allow for a rejection of hegemony, and the male characters in these novels unknowingly follow society’s ideal masculine values. By using the theory of masculinities as a character study tool, the differences in the gender performance of the male characters in the pre-colonial and colonial eras are made clear and control is established as an ideology of the colonial era.
Francis Selormey的《狭路》和Asare Konadu的《盛年的女人》这两部小说通过对人际关系和男人在这些关系中所扮演角色的探索,为加纳丰富的文学传统增添了新的色彩。尽管获得了狂热的读者群,但这些文本在很大程度上被学者们所忽视。本文对这些文本中的男性进行考察,揭示其所呈现的男子气概形象,并揭示他们是遵循社会的霸权模式还是创造自己的道路。本文认为,这些小说所呈现的社会不允许对霸权的拒绝,这些小说中的男性角色在不知不觉中遵循了社会理想的男性价值观。以男性气质理论作为人物研究工具,厘清前殖民时代与殖民时代男性人物性别表现的差异,确立控制作为殖民时代的意识形态。
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“The baze is our workstation, we report here every day”—Understanding the Role of Youth Practices in Urban Subculture “贝斯是我们的工作站,我们每天都在这里报道”——理解青年实践在城市亚文化中的作用
Q3 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1163/18757421-bja00003
Isaac Muhando
Contemporary globalisation and urbanisation continue to play a significant role in how the youths (re)create and (re)define urban spaces in Africa. Major cities across the continent are becoming active sites for social and cultural transformation. With the economic slowdown and increased rate of unemployment, youths are seeking ways to adapt to these realities while at the same time staying true to their urban identity. The present study uses participatory observation to examine two of the emerging youth practices in Nairobi, which are, the baze and gengetone music, to underscore how the youths in Nairobi Eastlands engage these practices both as sites for bolstering their urban identity and as alternative spaces for earning a livelihood. The study reveals that both the baze and gengetone music are available platforms which city youths use to construct their urban identities while dealing with local social challenges such as alcoholism, drug abuse and negative ethnicity, as well as harsh economic realities such as unemployment and a high cost of living. Further examination shows that discourse spaces created by these practices afford them a chance to participate in matters of national interest where they can contest and challenge social orders that are oppressive.
当代全球化和城市化在非洲年轻人如何(重新)创造和(重新)定义城市空间方面继续发挥着重要作用。整个非洲大陆的主要城市正在成为社会和文化转型的活跃场所。随着经济放缓和失业率上升,年轻人正在寻找适应这些现实的方法,同时保持他们的城市身份。本研究采用参与式观察来考察内罗毕新兴的两种青年实践,即贝斯和gengetone音乐,以强调内罗毕东区的年轻人如何将这些实践作为增强其城市身份的场所和谋生的替代空间。研究表明,贝斯音乐和gengetone音乐都是城市年轻人用来构建他们的城市身份的平台,同时处理当地的社会挑战,如酗酒、吸毒和负面种族,以及严峻的经济现实,如失业和高生活成本。进一步的研究表明,这些实践创造的话语空间为他们提供了参与国家利益事务的机会,在那里他们可以挑战和挑战压迫性的社会秩序。
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Kuduro, Digital Music and Lifestyle in Diaspora 库德罗,散居的数字音乐与生活方式
Q3 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1163/18757421-bja00002
Frank Marcon
Kuduro is a style of dance and electronic music that emerged in Angola in the nineties, in a peculiar social context. Initially consumed and produced by young people from the periphery of the city of Luanda, it became a means of expression, entertainment, socialization and subsistence, through which they became autonomous and symbolically transformed their realities of scarcity. With access to communication technologies and movements of global dispersion of people and information, kuduro also spread to other countries and gained other meanings. Here, I analyze the characteristics of its context of origin, the conditions and implications of such dispersal, and disputes over the meanings of style.
Kuduro是一种舞蹈和电子音乐的风格,在90年代在一个特殊的社会背景下出现在安哥拉。最初由罗安达市外围的年轻人消费和生产,它成为一种表达、娱乐、社交和生存的手段,通过它,他们变得自主,并象征性地改变了他们的稀缺现实。随着通信技术的普及和全球人口和信息的流动,kuduro也传播到其他国家,并获得了其他含义。在这里,我分析了其起源语境的特点,这种传播的条件和影响,以及对风格意义的争论。
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On Postcolonial Knowledge 论后殖民知识
Q3 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1163/18757421-bja00001
Adeshina Afolayan
Knowledge and knowledge production play a significant role in the postcolonial project of de-traumatization and self-realization. However, such knowledge has often been couched within a Eurocentric epistemological framework. The postcolony is caught firmly within the orthodox which translates positivistic knowledge into the very definition of worldly progress—the idea of how a state attends to the welfare and well-being of its citizens through a development agenda. This essay engages the question: What might constitute an autonomous framework that could assist Africa and her thinkers and scholars in the development and validation of local forms of knowledge for social transformation? In this regard, I will examine the claims of Otto Neurath’s postpositivism and the dynamic pluralism of the Ifá sacred corpus of the Yorùbá, both within the framework of the epistemology of the South project. Both of these epistemological frameworks outline a pluralistic understanding of knowledge that could enable the reconfiguring of knowledge production in Africa.
知识和知识生产在去创伤和自我实现的后殖民项目中发挥着重要作用。然而,这样的知识往往是在欧洲中心认识论框架内表达的。后殖民地牢牢地抓住了正统,将实证主义知识转化为对世俗进步的定义——即一个国家如何通过发展议程来关注其公民的福利和福祉。这篇文章涉及到这样一个问题:什么可能构成一个自主框架,可以帮助非洲及其思想家和学者发展和验证当地形式的知识,以促进社会转型?在这方面,我将在南方项目的认识论框架内,研究Otto Neurath的后实证主义主张和Yorùbá的if神圣语料库的动态多元主义。这两种认识论框架都概述了对知识的多元理解,可以使非洲的知识生产重新配置。
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Postmodern Doctrines and Poetic Vision in G’Ebinyo Ogbowei’s marsh boy & other poems 格比尼奥·奥格博维《沼泽男孩》及其他诗歌中的后现代主义学说与诗歌视野
Q3 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-10-20 DOI: 10.1163/18757421-05202004
Valentine Chimenem Owhorodu
This paper explores and queries the reliance on postmodernist doctrines that continue to flood the Nigerian cultural and intellectual spaces. Essentially, postmodernism undermines established religious, cultural and political metanarratives that guide the sense of morality, order and decorum that are characteristic of many African societies. To examine the infiltration of the postmodernist philosophy into the Nigerian ideological space, a significant place to begin is the country’s literary productions. Ebinyo Ogbowei’s marsh boy & other poems is a compelling commentary on the author’s appropriation of postmodern creeds to counter long-established metanarratives which have allegedly abetted the fractured political and economic climate of many countries. The poet adopts revolutionary aesthetics, intertextuality, eclecticism, nihilism and pessimism, pornography and playfulness and ruptures linguistic and grammatical conventions to affirm his philosophy of progressive emancipation through revolutionary, nihilistic, and subversive acts. In the end, his postmodernist strategies fail because they plunge his fictional society into deeper chaos and lack of finality and closure, while he embraces coital diversion as an escape hatch from the vagaries of life. This places a huge question mark on the viability of postmodern protocols, especially as it concerns the undermining of religious and cultural metanarratives that have so far provided humanity guidelines for social and political decorum.
本文探讨并质疑对后现代主义理论的依赖,这些理论继续充斥着尼日利亚的文化和知识空间。从本质上讲,后现代主义破坏了已建立的宗教、文化和政治元叙事,这些元叙事指导着许多非洲社会的道德感、秩序和礼仪。要考察后现代主义哲学对尼日利亚意识形态空间的渗透,一个重要的起点是该国的文学作品。Ebinyo Ogbowei的《沼泽男孩和其他诗歌》是对作者运用后现代信条来对抗长期存在的元叙事的一种令人信服的评论,据称这些元叙事助长了许多国家支离破碎的政治和经济气候。诗人采用革命美学、互文性、折衷主义、虚无主义和悲观主义、色情和嬉笑,打破语言和语法惯例,通过革命、虚无主义和颠覆性的行为来肯定他的进步解放哲学。最后,他的后现代主义策略失败了,因为它们使他的虚构社会陷入更深的混乱,缺乏终局性和封闭性,而他把性转移作为逃离生活变幻莫测的逃生口。这给后现代协议的可行性打上了一个巨大的问号,特别是当它涉及到迄今为止为社会和政治礼仪提供人性指导的宗教和文化元叙事的破坏时。
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Negotiating Black Identity 协商黑人身份
Q3 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-10-20 DOI: 10.1163/18757421-05202007
Dina Yerima-Avazi, Chinonye Ekwueme-Ugwu
This paper interrogates location as a fulcrum for hybrid identity creation for African characters in Africa, African Americans and African characters in the Diaspora. Over time, identity has been negotiated on the basis of race, ethnicity and religion. These are often linked to a specific place and find expression in definitions of culture, suggesting location as a necessary component of culture and, by extension, a major influence on identity. Conceptual notions of diaspora and hybridity, as explored within the postcolonial theory, serve as the framework which research uses to comparatively query the negotiation of hybrid identity as given in Roots by Alex Haley and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. These two texts represent African American and African characters’ experiences, respectively. The study aims to reveal that regardless of regional difference and other nuances in the experiences of African American and African characters, hybrid identity creation for both African American and African characters, is tied to location—which, in this case, is Africa.
本文探讨了地域作为在非洲的非洲人、非裔美国人和散居海外的非洲人混合身份创造的支点。随着时间的推移,身份是在种族、民族和宗教的基础上进行谈判的。这些通常与特定的地点有关,并在文化的定义中有所体现,表明地点是文化的必要组成部分,进而对身份产生重大影响。后殖民理论中所探讨的散居和混杂的概念,作为研究的框架,对Alex Haley的《根》和Yaa Gyasi的《回家》所给出的混合身份的协商进行了比较质疑。这两个文本分别代表了非裔美国人和非洲人的经历。这项研究旨在揭示,无论非洲裔美国人和非洲裔角色的经历有何地域差异和其他细微差别,非洲裔美国人和非洲裔角色的混合身份创造都与地点有关——在这种情况下,地点是非洲。
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