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The cool-kawaii : Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity /
The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity, by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, analyzes and compares African American cool culture and the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii or cute and characterizes them as expressions set against oppressive homogenizations of a technocratic world. The C...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated,
[2011]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity, by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, analyzes and compares African American cool culture and the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii or cute and characterizes them as expressions set against oppressive homogenizations of a technocratic world. The Cool-Kawaii sheds light on the history and development of both cultures in three main ways: First, both emerge from similar historical conditions; second, both are in search of human dignity and liberation, and finally, both kawaii and African American cool establish a new kind of modernity able to transcend both traditionalism and anti-traditionalist modernity. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 209 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780739148471 0739148478 128359952X 9781283599528 |