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| Title: | Fashioning Africa: power and the politics of dress |
| Editor: | Allman, Jean Marie |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Pages: | 247 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African expressive cultures |
| City of publisher: | Bloomington, IN |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| ISBN: | 0253344158; 0253216893 |
| Geographic terms: | Mali Ghana Nigeria Angola Kenya Somalia Zanzibar Tanzania Zambia |
| Subjects: | 2001 diasporas clothing female dress symbols of power textiles conference papers (form) |
| Abstract: | This collective volume, which is based on papers presented on two panels at the 2001 meeting of the African Studies Association in Houston, Texas, explores dress practice as it is embedded in fields of power - economic, political, gendered, or generational - in order to probe the ways in which modifications of the body through clothing have been used to constitute and to challenge power in Africa and its diaspora. Part 1 (Fashioning unity: women and dress; power and citizenship) contains chapters on dress and identity on Zanzibar (Laura Fair); dress and politics in post-World War II Abeokuta, western Nigeria (Judith Byfield); nationalism and dress of Somali women in Minnesota (Heather Marie Akou). Part 2 (Dressing modern: gender, generation, and invented (national) traditions) includes chapters on clothing and struggles over identity in colonial western Kenya (Margaret Jean Hay); nation and dress in late colonial Luanda, Angola (Marissa Moorman); urban style, gender and the politics of 'national culture' in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Andrew M. Ivaska). Part 3 (Disciplined dress: gendered authority and national politics) presents chapters on dress and political transition in Nigeria (Elisha P. Renne); the politics of clothing in Nkrumah's Ghana (Jean Allman); miniskirts, gender relations and sexuality in Zambia (Karen Tranberg Hansen). Part 4 (African 'traditions' and global markets: the political economy of fashion and identity) contains chapters on the globalization of 'bogolan' or mudcloth, from Mali (Victoria L. Rovine); the role of African textiles in the politics of diasporic identity-making (Boatema Boateng). There is an afterword by Phyllis M. Martin. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
