Senegalese Wrestling between Nostalgia and Neoliberalism

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ID2098519
AutoresJonathon Repinecz (0000-0002-2539-2309, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume63
Fascículo4
Páginas906-926
Data de publicação2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/asr.2020.8
OpenAlexW3040161206
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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