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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cool and kawaii
  • New world modernity
  • Aspects of cuteness
  • Cross gender tendencies in cool and kawaii
  • Coolness between virtue ethics and aesthetics
  • The temptation of kitsch
  • Kitsch in Japan: tradition and modernity
  • Cool and dandyism: two words--one concept
  • Dandyism, consumer society, and virtual reality
  • Conclusion: a dialectics of cool and kawaii?