| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 209 pages) |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African American aesthetics -- Japan.
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African American aesthetics. |
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Japan. |
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Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics. |
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Popular culture -- Japan.
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Popular culture. |
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Japan -- Civilization -- 21st century.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Japan -- Civilization -- American influences.
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten. Cool-kawaii. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2011 9780739148457 (DLC) 2010043812 (OCoLC)670479166 |
| ISBN |
9780739148471 (electronic book) |
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0739148478 (electronic book) |
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128359952X |
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9781283599528 |
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9780739148457 |
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0739148451 |
| Standard No. |
9786613911971 |
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