African Dress : Fashion, Agency, Performance (Paperback)

Contents List of Illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction. Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University, USA PART IDressed Bodies and Power 1. Dressing for Success: The Politically Performative Quality of an Igbo Woman's Attire. Misty L. Bastian, Franklin & Marshall College, USA 2. Fashionability in Colonial and Postcolonial Togo. Nina Sylvanus, Northeastern University, USA 3. Branding Festive Bodies: Corporate Logos and Chiefly Image T-shirts in Ghana. Lauren Adrover, Northwestern University, USA PART IIMaterial Culture, Visual Recognition, and Display 4. Bazin Riche in Dakar, Senegal: Altered Inception, Use, and Wear. Kelly Kirby, University of Michigan, USA 5. Fashioning People, Crafting Networks: Multiple Meanings in the Mauritanian Veil (Mala?fa). Katherine Wiley, Indiana University, USA 6. The Hijab as Moral Space in Northern Nigeria. Elisha P. Renne, University of Michigan, USA PART III. Connecting Worlds through Dress 7. Dressing the Colonial Body: Senegalese Rifleman in Uniform. Keith Rathbone, Northwestern University, USA 8. Ghana Boys in Mali: Fashion, Youth, and Travel. Victoria L. Rovine, University of Florida, USA 9. Forging Connections, Performing Distinctions: Youth, Dress, and Consumption in Niger. Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University, USA 10. Fashion, Transnationality, and Swahili Men. Tina Mangieri, SIT, USA PART IVTransculturated Bodies 11. Photography, Poetry, and the Dressed Bodies of Leopold Sedar Senghor. Leslie W. Rabine, University of California, Davis, USA 12. Transculturated Displays: International Fashion and West African Portraiture. Candace M. Keller, Michigan State University, USA 13. Spectacular Dress: Africanisms in the Fashions and Performances of Josephine Baker, 1925-1975. Bennetta Jules-Rosette, University of California, San Diego, USA 14. Dressing Out-of-Place: From Ghana to Obama Commemorative Cloth on the American Red Carpet. D. Soyini Madison, Northwestern University, USA Index