Overview
- Provides insight in the entanglements of Africa-Asia relations
- Widens the field of Africa-Asia studies that are limited to approaches from economic and political sciences
- Includes in-depth discussions of case studies in Indian Ocean literary studies with music and art studies
Part of the book series: Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries (AGEG)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Africa-India Relations
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Africa-China Relations
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About this book
This book provides an insight into the complex entanglements between African countries and India, China, and South Korea from multidisciplinary perspectives connecting approaches from cultural, anthropological, literary, and music studies and art history. The three parts present a regional focus, namely Africa-India, Africa-South Korea, and Africa-China while the single contributions speak to each other and offer complementary insights. At the same time, the chapters also link across the regional realms as they deal with similar topics, such as travelling music genres. In part I, for Pombo material culture is the starting point to investigate the connections between the islands of the Indian Ocean and India by questioning the construction of memory. It highlights various aspects of the multilayered history of connections between Africa, the islands, and India. Part II gathers contributions that are complimentary to each other and therefore contribute to the understanding of the complex entanglements in area studies. Part III (Africa-South Korea) explores the impact of African-American arts and artists on South Korea's popular culture as well as the changing perception of artists of African descent in visual popular culture. It shows the impact of Korean content in South Africa.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ute Fendler holds the chair of Romance and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bayreuth. She is the deputy spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple. Her research interests cover literature and film cultures of the Caribbean, West Africa, the Indian Ocean, and South America.
Yongkyu Chang is a professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea and teaches in the Division of African Studies and Graduate School of International Area Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology at KwaZulu-Natal University in South Africa and researched various social and cultural issues across Africa. He has expertise in African belief systems and currently working on a project exploring spirit possession in Zanzibar.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Asia-Africa- Multifaceted Engagement in the Contemporary World
Editors: Ute Fendler, Yongkyu Chang
Series Title: Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0696-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-97-0695-2Published: 19 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-97-0698-3Due: 01 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-0696-9Published: 18 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-7825
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 286
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, African Politics, Cultural Policy and Politics, African Culture, Diaspora, Asian Culture