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Additional Physical Format: | ebook version : |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mehita Iqani; Simidele Dosekun |
ISBN: | 9781789382211 1789382211 9781783209934 1783209933 |
OCLC Number: | 1156386786 |
Description: | vi, 172 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: The Politics and Aesthetics of Luxury in Africa by Simidele Dosekun and Mehita IqaniSection One: Africa RisenChapter 1: The Last Luxury Frontier? How Global Consulting Firms Discursively Construct the African Market by Mehita IqaniChapter 2: African Utopianism: The Invention of Africa in Diesel's The Daily African - A Retrogressive Reading by Hlonipha MokoenaChapter 3: For Love or Money? Romance, Luxury and Class Distinction on Mzansi Magic's Date My Family by Alexia SmitSection Two: Re/Crafting African StyleChapter 4: From African Print to Global Luxury: Dutch Wax Cloth Rebranding and the Politics of High-Value by M. Amah EdohChapter 5: The Playful and Privileged Africanicity of Luxury: @AlaraLagos by Simidele DosekunChapter 6: Fields of Marigold: Makers and Wearers of African Luxury Beaded Necklaces by Pamila GuptaSection Three: Ambiguous Luxury Spaces Chapter 7: Luminance and the Moralization of Black Women's Luxury Consumption in South Africa by Ndapwa Alweendo and Simidele DosekunChapter 8: The Politics of Repair: Talatona and Luxury Urbanism in Luanda, Angola by Claudia GastrowChapter 9: Welcome to the Jungle: Tropical Modernism, Decadence, Gardening in Africa by Jonathan Cane |
Responsibility: | edited by Mehita Iqani and Simidele Dosekun. |
Abstract:
Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be "saved," and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as "rising," African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of lavish and luxurious consumption already present on the continent.
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- Luxuries -- Africa.
- Rich people -- Africa.
- Luxury goods industry -- Africa.
- Consumption (Economics) -- Africa.
- Aesthetics, African -- Political aspects.
- Produits de luxe -- Afrique.
- Riches -- Afrique.
- Produits de luxe -- Industrie -- Afrique.
- Esthétique africaine -- Aspect politique.
- Consumption (Economics)
- Luxuries.
- Luxury goods industry.
- Rich people.
- Africa.