The cool-kawaii : Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2011]
Subjects:
2000-2099
Aesthetics.
Popular culture > Japan.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
African American aesthetics
Aesthetics
Civilization
Civilization > American influences
Popular culture
Populaire cultuur.
Esthetica.
Japan > Civilization > 21st century.
Japan > Civilization > American influences.
Japan
Japan.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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