1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455803703321

Autore

Woodcock George <1912-1995.>

Titolo

Colony and confederation [[electronic resource] ] : early Canadian poets and their background / / edited by George Woodcock ; with an introd. by Roy Daniells

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, [B.C.], : University of British Columbia Press, [1974]

ISBN

1-283-22691-X

9786613226914

0-7748-5800-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

Canadian literature series ; ; 6

Disciplina

811/.4/09

Soggetti

Canadian poetry - History and criticism

Poets, Canadian

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967559303321

Titolo

Fashion and materiality : cultural practices in global contexts / / edited by Heike Jenss, Viola Hofmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

9781350057845 : (ebk : Bloomsbury)

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 297p. ; : ill

Disciplina

391.009

Soggetti

Clothing and dress - History

Fashion - History

Textile industry - Social aspects

Fashion - Social aspects

Materialism

Fashion History

Fashion Design

Material Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Fashion and Materiality -- Heike Jenss and Viola Hofmann -- SECTION 1: FASHION AND CLOTHING - MATERIALS IN TIME AND PLACE -- Introduction -- 1. Material Subjects: Making Place, Making Time through Fashion -- Susan Kaiser -- 2. Dressed Lives: Biography, Emotion, and Materiality -- Christel Köhle-Hezinger -- 3. The Discovery of Materiality: On Archaeological Clothing Finds, Representation and Knowledge Formation -- Daniel Devoucoux -- 4. Appropriating the World through Clothing: Christoph Kress' Foreign Dress Collection -- Jutta Zander-Seidel -- SECTION 2: MATERIALITY IN MOTION - TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS OF FASHION -- Introduction -- 5. Chinoiserie in Fashion: Material Images Circulating Between China and Europe -- Daniel Purdy -- 6. Tradition in Fashion: Golden Embroidery and the Crafting of Heritage in Bukhara -- Lola Shamukhitdinova -- 7. "Our Dress": Chitenge as Zambia's National Fabric -- Karen Tranberg Hansen -- 8. "Made in China": Material Meanderings of Fast-Fashion Cities -- Christina H. Moon -- SECTION 3:



MATERIALITY AND EMBODIMENT -- Introduction -- 9. Sensorial Cosmologies: Fashion Design and the Embodied Practices of the Wearer -- Leyla Belkaid-Neri -- 10. "The Left-Hand Pose": Alchemic Realism and the Intra-Action of Music, Body, and Dress in Metal Yoga -- Otto von Busch -- 11. "Feeling Premium": Athleisure and the Material Transformation of Sporting Wear -- Jennifer Craik -- SECTION 4: MATERIAL EXCHANGES - FASHION AND MIGRATION -- Introduction -- 12. International Fashion Shows: Creating Transcultural Relationships through Clothing -- Andrea Hauser -- 13. Entangled Histories: Fashion and the Politics of Migration -- Elke Gaugele.

Sommario/riassunto

"With chapters from leading international scholars, Fashion and Materiality takes the reader from the study of clothing and biography, and an early modern "foreign dress" collection, to Chinoiserie clothing in 18th-century Europe and fast fashion production in today's China. The book also examines fashion's role in nation building, and entanglements between fashion and migration across clothing donations for Syrian refugees in Germany and the circulation of "refugee chic" on international fashion runways. Scrutinizing the dense connections between fashion, clothing, materiality, and humanity, the book shows how the material interacts forcefully with the personal and political"--