Colloque

Chanter le corps: oralité postmoderne et féminité discursive dans le hip hop nigérien

Yomi Olusegun-Joseph

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Yomi Olusegun-Joseph

Résumé de la communication

The contemporary temperament in Nigerian youth culture to articulate a voice of generational difference from established socio-cultural codes of ‘adult society’ in a bid to renegotiate the dominant social terms of power relations has informed a geography of generational identities and subjectivities largely constituted in hip hop, a postmodern cultural practice. Though this counter-discursive phenomenon has been tenuously acknowledged in newspaper reviews and editorial reports, there has been a dearth of academic intervention to explain this development and its potency to re-map the frontiers of inter-ethnic relations and gender dynamics, a gap which this paper sets out to redress. Recognizing its historical antecedent as a counter- hegemonic discourse, the paper argues the circulation of hip hop in Nigeria as a deconstructive, transcultural and transgenerational practice that has had an immense impact on re-thinking gender(ed) signposts and the discursive drawing of the female body. It suggests that sexuality, represented by both male and female lead practitioners, becomes problematic in locating what constitutes masculinity and femininity in this youth discourse. It insists that though the female body gains a measure of liberation and visibility through hip hop, woman still remains subtly other(ed). It concludes by giving the implication of this development on the society and suggests ways by which social policies may ground a new era of youth inclusion and reorientation.

Résumé du colloque

Le 11 mai en soirée, le documentaire "Les Fros" (ONF, 2010) sera présenté. La réalisatrice, Stéphanie Lanthier, sera présente et fera une brève allocution pour présenter son film et répondra aux questions du public après le visionnement. Le 12 mai en soirée aura lieu le vernissage de l’exposition « Projet Stanstead ou comment traverser la frontière » à la galerie d’art Foreman de Bishop’s. L'événement est une collaboration entre la galerie et notre colloque. Le grand public, les chercheurs présents au colloque et les artistes pourront échanger lors de ce cocktail-vernissage.