African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance (Dress, Body, Culture)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Apr 11, 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780857853813
Description: Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, 'African Dress' explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimise existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order.