Traveling texts and the work of Afro-Japanese cultural production : two haiku and a microphone / / edited by William H. Bridges IV and Nina Cornyetz

• Pubblicazione: Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Relations with Japanese; African Americans - Intellectual life; Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century; Popular culture - Japan - History - 20th century; Cultural fusion
• Soggetto geografico: Japan Civilization American influences; United States Civilization Japanese influences
• Persona (resp. second.): BridgesWilliam H. <1983->; CornyetzNina
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Traveling texts and the work of Afro-Japanese cultural production
• ISBN: 1-4985-0548-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821129503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New studies of modern Japan.