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Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global SouthPoaching Plots, Plastic Forms and Ambiguous Goods: Ways of Telling the China-in-Africa Story in the Anthropocene Age

Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global South: Poaching Plots, Plastic Forms and... [The dawn of the millennium saw two momentous shifts being defined on both geopolitical and geologic scales: the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) inaugurated a new era of African–Asian relations; and a geological epoch called the “Anthropocene” was proposed. This chapter analyses selected Southern African (non)fictional narratives that approach the point of intersection between the two, including crime fiction and noir film, NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel We Need New Names and Continental Drift by investigative journalists Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak. The narratives are arranged into three constellations—Cape Noir, China Mall and On the Road—in which the hot topics of raw-material extraction, cheap and counterfeit goods and infrastructural development are configured. Focusing on how genre and form, metaphor and image, structure the China-in-Africa story in the Anthropocene, the chapter reflects on the ways in which poaching plots and plastic forms are used to convey its ambiguous goods.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global SouthPoaching Plots, Plastic Forms and Ambiguous Goods: Ways of Telling the China-in-Africa Story in the Anthropocene Age

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series
Editors: Anthony, Ross; Ruppert, Uta
Samuelson, Meg
Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global South — Nov 2, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-28310-0
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97 –116
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10.1007/978-3-030-28311-7_6
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[The dawn of the millennium saw two momentous shifts being defined on both geopolitical and geologic scales: the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) inaugurated a new era of African–Asian relations; and a geological epoch called the “Anthropocene” was proposed. This chapter analyses selected Southern African (non)fictional narratives that approach the point of intersection between the two, including crime fiction and noir film, NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel We Need New Names and Continental Drift by investigative journalists Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak. The narratives are arranged into three constellations—Cape Noir, China Mall and On the Road—in which the hot topics of raw-material extraction, cheap and counterfeit goods and infrastructural development are configured. Focusing on how genre and form, metaphor and image, structure the China-in-Africa story in the Anthropocene, the chapter reflects on the ways in which poaching plots and plastic forms are used to convey its ambiguous goods.]

Published: Nov 2, 2019

Keywords: Anthropocene; China-in-Africa; Global South; Narrative form; Crime fiction; Counterfeits; The road

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