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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Monica L. MillerPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780822346036ISBN 10: 0822346036 Pages: 408 Publication Date: 08 October 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgments Introduction: Stylin Out; 1 'Mungo Macaroni': The Slavish Swell; 2 Crimes of Fashion: Dressing the Part from Slavery to Freedom; 3 W.E.B. Du Bois's 'Different' Diasporic Race Man; 4 'Passing Fancies': Dandyism, Harlem Modernism, and the Politics of Visuality; 5 'You Look Beautiful Like That': Black Dandyism and the Visual Histories of Black Cosmopolitanism Notes; Bibliography; IndexReviewsClothes make the man and other intergendered subjectivities in this stimulating study of the social meaning of fashion in the black community. Barnard English professor Miller surveys the history of sartorial style and flamboyance among black dandies and the cultural responses, both fascinated and alarmed, they have provoked. She paints a broad and teeming panorama...she offers an incisive, nuanced analysis of a rich vein of cultural history. Publisher's Weekly 3rd Aug 2009 Monica L. Miller's close readings dazzle, and her historical reach--confident and unforced--is as long as the transnational arc of black dandyism here is wide. Arresting, discerning, responsible, and urgent, Slaves to Fashion is path-breaking. Literary criticism, visual history, and black Atlantic studies never looked so good. --Maurice O. Wallace, author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995 Revising and augmenting scholarship on minstrelsy, literary representations of blackness, and black sartorial aesthetics and visual culture, Slaves to Fashion is an impressive and meticulously researched treatise on the history of the black dandy. It fills a gap in the scholarship on the cultural politics of black self-fashioning. --E. Patrick Johnson, author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity Author InformationMonica L. Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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