Traveling texts and the work of Afro-Japanese cultural production : : two haiku and a microphone / / edited by William H. Bridges IV and Nina Cornyetz.

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Superior document:New studies of modern Japan
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Place / Publishing House:Lanham : : Lexington Books,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:New studies of modern Japan.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (303 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: work it: traveling texts and the work of reading Afro-Japanese cultural exchange / William H. Bridges IV and Nina Cornyetz
  • Art and performance. Urban geishas: reading race and gender in Irozealb's paintings / Crystal Anderson
  • The theatrics of Japanese blackface: body as mannequin / Nina Cornyetz
  • Abbey Lincoln and Kazuko Shiraishi's art-making as spiritual labor / Yuichiro Onishi and Tia-Simone Gardner
  • Poetry and literature. Playing the dozens on zen: Amiri Baraka's journey from a "pre-black" Bohemian outsider to a "post-American low coup" poet / Michio Arimitsu
  • Richard Wright's haiku and modernist poetics / Yoshinobu Hakutani
  • In the beginning: blackness and the 1960s creative nonfiction of Oe Kenzaburo / William H. Bridges IV
  • Future-oriented blackness in shawa robot culture, 1924 to 1963 / Anne McKnight
  • Sound, song, music. "This is who I am": Jero and the polycultural politics of black Enka / Kevin Fellezs
  • Extending diaspora: the NAACP and up-"lift" cultures in the interwar black Pacific / Shana Redmond
  • Hip-hop and reggae in recent Japanese social movements / Noriko Manabe
  • Can the Japanese rap? / Dexter Thomas Jr
  • Race, ethnicity and affective community in Japanese rastafari / Marvin Sterling.