African dress : fashion, agency, performance / edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and D. Soyini Madison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansen, Karen Tranberg.

Madison, D. Soyini.

Series:

Dress, Body, Culture

Dress, body, culture, 1360-466X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--Africa.

Clothing and dress.

Fashion--Africa.

Fashion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimize existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order. Drawing on innovative, interdisciplinary research by established and up and coming scholars, the book examines real life projects and social transformations that are deeply political, revolving around individual and public goals of dig

Contents:

African Dress; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I DRESSED BODIES AND POWER; 1 Dressing for Success: The Politically Performative Quality of an Igbo Woman's Attire; 2 Fashionability in Colonial and Postcolonial Togo; 3 Branding Festive Bodies: Corporate Logos and Chiefly Image T-Shirts in Ghana; PART II MATERIAL CULTURE, VISUAL RECOGNITION, AND DISPLAY; 4 Bazin Riche in Dakar, Senegal: Altered Inception, Use, and Wear; 5 Fashioning People, Crafting Networks: Multiple Meanings in the Mauritanian Veil (Malahf̣a)

6 The Hijab as Moral Space in Northern NigeriaPART III CONNECTING WORLDS THROUGH DRESS; 7 Dressing the Colonial Body: Senegalese Rifleman in Uniform; 8 Ghana Boys in Mali: Fashion, Youth, and Travel; 9 Forging Connections, Performing Distinctions: Youth, Dress, and Consumption in Niger; 10 Fashion, Transnationality, and Swahili Men; PART IV TRANSCULTURATED BODIES; 11 Photography, Poetry, and the Dressed Bodies of Léopold Sédar Senghor; 12 Transculturated Displays: International Fashion and West African Portraiture

13 Spectacular Dress: Africanisms in the Fashions and Performances of Josephine Baker, 1925-197514 Dressing Out-of-Place: From Ghana to Obama Commemorative Cloth on the USAmerican Red Carpet; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-85785-820-3

OCLC:

855504304