Cool-Kawaii : Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0739148451
ISBN-13
9780739148457
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 28th, 2010
Print length
238 Pages
Weight
516 grams
Dimensions
23.90 x 16.30 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesEthnic studies / EthnicityCultural studiesBlack & Asian studies
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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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