Jan Ke-Schutte, "Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations" (U California Press, 2023)
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The Angluocene and the English Language
In chapter one, you describe the Angluocene and its pragmatic dimensions through chronotopes, signs and icons of value. In order to transform any meaning or to create sort of a conception of what one meaningful set means in another context, you actually need a third space. So if we're looking at Anglo scene, it is neither English nor is it race, but it is signs of Englishness and race-ness as they become used or pragmatically recruited in social interaction.
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