ABSTRACT

This paper shows that various songs by Sikh Canadian rap artist Fateh represent engagements with essentialist discourses that neatly mirror Bibi Bakare-Yusuf's notion of “diasporicity”: the continual re-inscription of the origin in acts of embodied agency that retain their connection to tradition while also negotiating the body's social meanings that exist outside of the subject's self-positioning. I argue through a reading of Fateh's songs that the notion of diasporicity reveals how race, ethnicity, and religion overlap for Sikh Canadians—especially the ways in which bodily expressions of Sikh “religion” are simultaneously interpellated through the discourse of culture/ethnicity and religio-racialization.

摘要

本文表明，锡克教加拿大说唱艺术家 Fateh 的各种歌曲代表了与本质主义话语的接触，这些话语巧妙地反映了 Bibi Bakare-Yusuf 的“离散性”概念：在体现机构的行为中不断重新铭刻起源，这些行为保留了与传统的联系，同时又保留了与传统的联系。还协商存在于主体自我定位之外的身体的社会意义。通过阅读法塔赫的歌曲，我认为散居的概念揭示了锡克教加拿大人的种族、族裔和宗教如何重叠，尤其是锡克教“宗教”的身体表达同时通过文化/种族和宗教话语相互渗透的方式-种族化。