Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production (eBook)

Two Haiku and a Microphone

Nina Cornyetz, William H. Bridges IV (Herausgeber)

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2015
294 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0548-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in Japan or the black enka singer Jero, the volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning the generative aspects of transcultural production. The contributors are interested primarily in texts in motionthe contradictory motion within texts, the traveling of texts, and the action that such kinetic energy inspires in readers, viewers, listeners, and travelers. As our texts travel and travail, the originary nodal points that anchor them to set significations loosen and are transformed; the essays trace how, in the process of traveling, the bodies and subjectivities of those working to reimagine the text(s) in new sites moderate, accommodate, and transfigure both the texts and themselves.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Part One: Art and PerformanceChapter 1: Urban Geishas: Reading Race and Gender in iROZEALb’s Paintings, Crystal AndersonChapter 2: The Theatrics of Japanese Blackface: Body as Mannequin, Nina CornyetzChapter 3: Abbey Lincoln and Kazuko Shiraishi’s Art-Making as Spiritual Labor, Yuichiro Onishi and Tia-Simone GardnerPart Two: Poetry and LiteratureChapter 4: Playing the Dozens on Zen: Amiri Baraka’s Journey from a “Pre-Black” Bohemian Outsider to a “Post-American Low Coup” Poet, Michio ArimitsuChapter 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 IVChapter 7: Future-Oriented Blackness in Shōwa Robot Culture—1924 to 1963, Anne McKnight Part Three: Sound, Song, MusicChapter 8: “This Is Who I Am”: Jero and the Polycultural Politics of Black Enka, Kevin FellezsChapter 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 ManabeChapter 11: Can the Japanese Rap?, Dexter Thomas Jr.Chapter 12: Race, Ethnicity and Affective Community in Japanese Rastafari, Marvin Sterling

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2015
• Reihe/Serie: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Co-Autor: Crystal S. Anderson, Anne McKnight, Yuichiro Onishi, Shana L. Redmond, Marvin D. Sterling, Michio Arimitsu, Nina Cornyetz, Kevin Fellezs, Tia-Simone Gardner, Yoshinobu Hakutani, William H. Bridges IV, Dexter Thomas Jr., Noriko Manabe
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 3 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American Studies • Asian Studies • Cultural Studies • Ethnic Studies • Haiku • Japanese Hip Hop • Japanese popular culture
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0548-1 / 1498505481
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0548-2 / 9781498505482