African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance

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 expressi...

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1. Verfasser: Madison, D. Soyini (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Bloomsbury Academic 2013
Schriftenreihe:Dress, Body, Culture
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Online-Ausgabe erschienen bei Bloomsbury Fashion Central: 2021
Beschreibung:Online-Ressource (xviii, 254 Seiten)
ISBN:9781474280068
9781472558114
9780857854186
DOI:10.2752/9781474280068

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