Modernity Bluff电子书

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Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

Ivoirian Nationalism and Urban Popular Culture

Yere and Gaou: Authenticity and the Cosmology of Modernity

Sapeurs and Bluffeurs: Discourses on African Mimesis

Mimesis and Masking: Real Fakes and the Elusive Illusion of Modernity

Abidjan: The Urban Setting

Methodology

Outline of the Argument

ONE / Enregistering Modernity, Bluffing Criminality: How Nouchi Speech Reinvented the Nation

Les Nouchis: Speaking of “Gangsters”

Loubard, Boss, and Bakroman: Further Stereotypes

Yere and Gaou: Nouchi Hierarchy and Modernity

Ivoirian Language Policy and the French Model of National Identity

Urban Cultural Integration and the Ivoirianization of French

The Emergence of Nouchi and the Self-Recognition of Ivoirian Popular Culture

Vicarious Banditry: The Mediation of Nouchi

Purity and the Perils of Degeneration: Anxious Interpretations of Nouchi

Nouchi and National Identity

TWO / Bizness and “Blood Brothers”: The Moral Economy of Crime

The Infamy of Treichville

The Economic Underpinnings of the Bluff: Illicit yet Moral Economies

The Illegitimacy of Labor

Kinship, Economy, and Gendered Sociality

Bizness

The Productivity of Social Networks

The Normative Network

State Intervention/State Cooperation

Hierarchical Relations

Social Accumulation

THREE / Faire le show: Masculinity and the Performative Success of Waste

The Maquis: Public Space Par Excellence

Imbibing Differentiation: Drinking Establishments and Disdain

“Gâte, on est ensemble”: The Trope of Waste

“Go Waste! We Are Watching”: Dance and Display

The Gift of Bluffing: Exchanges Underlying the “Show”

Out on “La Rue”

The Dangers of Display

Street Rituals: Urban Life Cycle Ceremonies and the Maquis

Potlatch and the Production of Audience

Masculinity and the Dangerous Consumption of Women

Gender and the Performativity of the Bluff

FOUR / Fashioning Alterity: Masking, Metonymy, and Otherworld Origins

The Centrality of the Sartorial

The Bluff: Appearance and Economy

Elite Consumption: Following the French

Yere Consumers and Urban Symbols of Modernity

Suits versus Hip-Hop: Taste and Social Hierarchy

Whiteness and the Otherworld: A Local Cosmology of Externality

Evaluating Objects: The Modernity of Brands

Authentic Imitations, Metonymic Transformations

Ivoirian Masquerades and Yere Vision

FIVE / Paris Is Hard like a Rock: Migration and the Spatial Hierarchy of Global Relations

Urban-Village Migration

Migrating Dreams

Migratory Practicalities

The Descent and the Bluff

Bengiste Networks, Migrant Economies

Demystification cation and Remythologizing Discourses

The Mediation of the Otherworld: Migration as a Form of Consumption

Migration and National Identity

SIX / Counterfeit Belongings: Branding the Ivoirian Political Crisis

Ethnicity, Postcoloniality, and National Identity

Ivoirian Models of Nationality: French versus Nouchi

The Death of Houphouët and the Emergence of Ivoirité

Boubous and the Politics of Exclusion

The Structure of the North-South Divide in Popular Culture

Branding the Nation: Cultural Mastery and the Unstable Signification of Authenticity

CONCLUSION / Modernity as Bluff

On the Nature of “Western” Imitation

On the Character of (Alternative?) Modernity

Postcolonial Mimesis and the Crisis of Signification

Incommensurability: Fetishes, Doubles, and the Fake

Notes

Glossary

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Index