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African dress : fashion, agency, performance /

Contributor(s): Series: Dress, body, culturePublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2013Description: xviii, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780857853806
  • 0857853805
  • 0857853813
  • 9780857853813
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Contents:
Introduction / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Dressing for success : the politically performative quality of an Igbo woman's attire / Misty L. Bastian -- Fashionability in colonial and postcolonial Togo / Nina Sylvanus -- Branding festive bodies : corporate logos and chiefly image T-shirts in Ghana / Lauren Adrover -- Bazin riche in Dakar, Senegal : altered inception, use, and wear / Kelly Kirby -- Fashioning people, crafting networks : multiple meanings in the Mauritanian veil (malaḥfa) / Katherine Wiley -- The hijab as moral space in northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- Dressing the colonial body : Senegalese rifleman in uniform / Keith Rathbone -- Ghana boys in Mali : fashion, youth, and travel / Victoria L. Rovine -- Forging connections, performing distinctions : youth, dress, and consumption in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Fashion, transnationality, and Swahili men / Tina Mangieri -- Photography, poetry, and the dressed bodies of Léopold Sédar Senghor / Leslie W. Rabine -- Transculturated displays : international fashion and West African portraiture / Candace M. Keller -- Spectacular dress : Africanisms in the fashions and performances of Josephine Baker, 1925-1975 / Bennetta Jules-Rosette -- Dressing out-of-place : from Ghana to Obama commemorative cloth on the USAmerican red carpet / D. Soyini Madison.
Summary: 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 legitimise existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Dressing for success : the politically performative quality of an Igbo woman's attire / Misty L. Bastian -- Fashionability in colonial and postcolonial Togo / Nina Sylvanus -- Branding festive bodies : corporate logos and chiefly image T-shirts in Ghana / Lauren Adrover -- Bazin riche in Dakar, Senegal : altered inception, use, and wear / Kelly Kirby -- Fashioning people, crafting networks : multiple meanings in the Mauritanian veil (malaḥfa) / Katherine Wiley -- The hijab as moral space in northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- Dressing the colonial body : Senegalese rifleman in uniform / Keith Rathbone -- Ghana boys in Mali : fashion, youth, and travel / Victoria L. Rovine -- Forging connections, performing distinctions : youth, dress, and consumption in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Fashion, transnationality, and Swahili men / Tina Mangieri -- Photography, poetry, and the dressed bodies of Léopold Sédar Senghor / Leslie W. Rabine -- Transculturated displays : international fashion and West African portraiture / Candace M. Keller -- Spectacular dress : Africanisms in the fashions and performances of Josephine Baker, 1925-1975 / Bennetta Jules-Rosette -- Dressing out-of-place : from Ghana to Obama commemorative cloth on the USAmerican red carpet / D. Soyini Madison.

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 legitimise existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order.

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