Senegalese Wrestling between Nostalgia and Neoliberalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2098519
AutoresJonathon Repinecz (0000-0002-2539-2309, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen63
Número4
Páginas906-926
Fecha de publicación2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/asr.2020.8
OpenAlexW3040161206
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas13

This article examines the cultural ambiguity of Senegalese wrestling. Certain discourses around this sport have constructed it as a nostalgic embodiment of traditional, national, or African values. At the same time, other discourses emphasize the sport's commercialization, its embeddedness in the economics of precarity, and even its inventedness as a tradition. The case of Senegalese wrestling illustrates how traditionality is summoned and put to question in a context of socioeconomic fragmentation. Repinecz offers readings of Aminata Sow Fall's novelL'Appel des arènes(1982), Cheikh Ndiaye's film adaptation of the same name (2005), and Boubacar Boris Diop's novelDoomi Golo(2003 and 2009) to illustrate this analysis

Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Context (archaeology · Embeddedness · Linguistics · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Precarity · Social science · Sociology · Doping in Sports · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society