The cool-kawaii : Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein.

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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Main Author: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2011]
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