Research Catalog

Title

Fashioning the afropolis : histories, materialities and aesthetic practices / edited by Kerstin Pinther, Kristin Kastner and Basile Ndjio.

Publication

• London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pinther, Kerstin
• Kastner, Kristin
• Ndjio, Basile, 1968-

Description

xiii, 222 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, Fashionscapes provides a range of innovative perspectives on global fashion, design, dress, photography, and the body in some of the major cities, with a focus on Lagos, Johannesburg, Dakar, and Douala. It contributes to the ongoing debates around the globalization of fashion and fashion theory by exploring fashion as a genuine urban phenomenon on the continent and among its diasporas. To date, ?fashion? and ?city? have not been systematically related to each other in the African context and, for too long, a western-centric gaze has dominated scholarship, resulting in the perception of Africa as provincial and its visual arts and textile cultures as static and folkloristic. This perspective is all the more distorted, given Africa's rich sartorial past. With a huge number of tailors ready to adapt and renew clothing, reshaping garments into contemporary styles, and many cities in Africa becoming hot-spots for a steadily growing and well-connected scene of fashion designers in the past 20 years, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and reconsideration of the fashionscapes of Africa. Leading scholars offer an updated empirical and theoretical foundation on which to base new and exciting research on sub-Saharan fashion, challenging perceptions and offering new insights."--

Series Statement

Dress cultures

Subject

• Fashion > African influences
• Fashion > Africa
• Fashion > Black people > Social aspects
• Fashion and globalization > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

Sc E 22-1458

ISBN

• 9781350179523
• 1350179523

OCLC

1314362706

Title

Fashioning the afropolis : histories, materialities and aesthetic practices / edited by Kerstin Pinther, Kristin Kastner and Basile Ndjio.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Dress cultures

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Pinther, Kerstin, editor.

Kastner, Kristin, editor.

Ndjio, Basile, 1968- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-1458