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Cool-Kawaii

By Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

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Cool-Kawaii

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
238
Release Date:
2010-12-01
Publication Date:
2010-12-28
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0739148451
ISBN13:
9780739148457
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
543 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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