It looks interesting, but I wish Amazon had a Kindle edition, especially if
it were priced under $15.00.
Mike Mallory
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From: "Botz- Bornstein" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 1:51 AM
Subject: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics
Dear List
May I draw your attention to a book on intercultural aesthetics:
THE COOL-KAWAII: AFRO-JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND NEW WORLD MODERNITY (Lanham:
Lexington, 2011)
Cool and kawaii are expressions set against the oppressive homogenizations
that occur within official modern cultures but are also catalysts of
modernity. Cool and kawaii do not refer us back to a pre-modern ethnic
past.
Just like the cool African American man has almost no relationship with
traditional African ideas about masculinity, the kawaii shojo is not the
personification of the traditional Japanese ideal of the feminine, but
signifies an ideological institution of women based on Japanese modernity
in
the Meiji period... More: http://botzbornstein.webs.com/books.htm
Thank you very much
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Gulf University, Kuwait
