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Traveling texts and the work of Afro-Japanese cultural production : two haiku and a microphone / edited by William H. Bridges IV and Nina Cornyetz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New studies of modern Japan.
- New studies of modern Japan
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Relations with Japanese.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Popular culture--Japan--History--20th century.
- Cultural fusion.
- Japan--Civilization--American influences.
- Japan.
- United States--Civilization--Japanese influences.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4985-0548-1
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