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The cool-kawaii : Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity
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Title
The cool-kawaii : Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein.
ISBN
9780739148457 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739148451 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.
Physical Description
xxviii, 209 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 04, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cool and kawaii
New world modernity
Aspects of cuteness
Cross gender tendencies in cool and kawaii
Coolness between virtue ethics and aesthetics
The temptation of kitsch
Kitsch in Japan: tradition and modernity
Cool and dandyism: two words
one concept
Dandyism, consumer society, and virtual reality
Conclusion: a dialectics of cool and kawaii?
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