The Cool-Kawaii
Author | : Thorsten Botz-Bornstein |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780739148471 |
ISBN-13 | : 0739148478 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Cool-Kawaii written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.