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 dignity, respect, status, and morality. With its remarkable scope, this book will attract students and scholars of fashion and dress, material culture and consumption, performance studies, and art history in relation to Africa and on a global scale.
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Introduction
Karen Tranberg Hansen | 1
Part I: Dressed bodies and power
1Dressing for success: the politically performative quality of an Igbo woman's attire
Misty LBastian | 15
2 Fashionability in colonial and postcolonial Togo
Nina Sylvanus | 30
3Branding festive bodies: corporate logos and chiefly image T-shirts in Ghana
Lauren Adrover | 45
Part II: Material culture, visual recognition, and display
4 Bazin riche in Dakar, Senegal: altered inception, use, and wear
Kelly Kirby | 63
5Fashioning people, crafting networks: multiple meanings in the Mauritanian veil (malah?fa)
Katherine Wiley | 77
6The hijab as moral space in northern Nigeria
Elisha PRenne | 92
Part III: Connecting worlds through dress
7Dressing the colonial body: Senegalese rifleman in uniform
Keith Rathbone | 111
8Ghana boys in Mali: fashion, youth, and travel
Victoria LRovine | 124
9Forging connections, performing distinctions: youth, dress, and consumption in Niger
Adeline Masquelier | 138
10Fashion, transnationality, and Swahili men
Tina Mangieri | 153
Part IV: Transculturated bodies
11Photography, poetry, and the dressed bodies of Le?opold Se?dar Senghor
Leslie WRabine | 171
12Transculturated displays: international fashion and West African portraiture
Candace MKeller | 186
13Spectacular dress : Africanisms in the fashions and performances of Josephine Baker, 1925-1975
Bennetta Jules-Rosette | 204
14Dressing out-of-place: from Ghana to Obama commemorative cloth on the USAmerican red carpet
DSoyini Madison | 217
Index | 231
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ed. by Karen Tranberg Hansen and D. Soyini Madison
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2013
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London, Bloomsbury
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ISBN:
978-0-85785-381-3
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245 S. : Ill.
Sprache:
Englisch
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