Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production

Two Haiku and a Microphone
Herausgeber: Iv, William H Bridges; Tsutsui, William; Cornyetz, Nina; Slaymaker, Douglas

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781498505499
• ISBN-10: 149850549X
• Artikelnr.: 55753703

Autorenporträt

William H. Bridges is assistant professor of Japanese and Asian studies at St. Olaf College. Nina Cornyetz is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at the Gallatin School for Individualized Study, New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Art and Performance Chapter 1: Urban Geishas: Reading Race and
Gender in iROZEALb's Paintings, Crystal Anderson Chapter 2: The Theatrics
of Japanese Blackface: Body as Mannequin, Nina Cornyetz Chapter 3: Abbey
Lincoln and Kazuko Shiraishi's Art-Making as Spiritual Labor, Yuichiro
Onishi and Tia-Simone Gardner Part Two: Poetry and Literature Chapter 4:
Playing the Dozens on Zen: Amiri Baraka's Journey from a "Pre-Black"
Bohemian Outsider to a "Post-American Low Coup" Poet, Michio Arimitsu
Chapter 5: Richard Wright's Haiku and Modernist Poetics, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter 6: In the Beginning: Blackness and the 1960s Creative Nonfiction of
Ôe Kenzaburô, William H. Bridges IV Chapter 7: Future-Oriented Blackness in
Sh¿wa Robot Culture-1924 to 1963, Anne McKnight Part Three: Sound, Song,
Music Chapter 8: "This Is Who I Am": Jero and the Polycultural Politics of
Black Enka, Kevin Fellezs Chapter 9: Extending Diaspora: The NAACP and
Up-"Lift" Cultures in the Interwar Black Pacific, Shana Redmond Chapter 10:
Hip-Hop and Reggae in Recent Japanese Social Movements, Noriko Manabe
Chapter 11: Can the Japanese Rap?, Dexter Thomas Jr. Chapter 12: Race,
Ethnicity and Affective Community in Japanese Rastafari, Marvin Sterling