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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 209 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780739148471
0739148478
128359952X
9781283599528 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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