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UNINA9910797559703321 |
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Titolo |
Traveling texts and the work of Afro-Japanese cultural production : two haiku and a microphone / / edited by William H. Bridges IV and Nina Cornyetz |
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Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (303 p.) |
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Collana |
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New studies of modern Japan |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans - Relations with Japanese |
African Americans - Intellectual life |
Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
Popular culture - Japan - History - 20th century |
Cultural fusion |
Japan Civilization American influences |
United States Civilization Japanese influences |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: work it: traveling texts and the work of reading Afro-Japanese cultural exchange / William H. Bridges IV and Nina Cornyetz -- Art and performance. Urban geishas: reading race and gender in Irozealb's paintings / Crystal Anderson -- The theatrics of Japanese blackface: body as mannequin / Nina Cornyetz -- Abbey Lincoln and Kazuko Shiraishi's art-making as spiritual labor / Yuichiro Onishi and Tia-Simone Gardner -- Poetry and literature. Playing the dozens on zen: Amiri Baraka's journey from a "pre-black" Bohemian outsider to a "post-American low coup" poet / Michio Arimitsu -- Richard Wright's haiku and modernist poetics / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- In the beginning: blackness and the 1960s creative nonfiction of Oe Kenzaburô / William H. Bridges IV -- Future-oriented blackness in shawa robot culture, 1924 to 1963 / Anne McKnight -- Sound, song, music. "This is who I am": Jero and the polycultural politics of black Enka / Kevin Fellezs -- Extending diaspora: the NAACP and up-"lift" cultures in the interwar |
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black Pacific / Shana Redmond -- Hip-hop and reggae in recent Japanese social movements / Noriko Manabe -- Can the Japanese rap? / Dexter Thomas Jr -- Race, ethnicity and affective community in Japanese rastafari / Marvin Sterling. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. |
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