When Malian aesthetic : authenticity turns black : Xuly Bët's model choreography to Afro-global rhythms of the late nineteen eighties to the New Millennium Genevieve Arrindell Hyacinthe
Published in the author's PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 2008.
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Contents:
Fabrice in the rough : unfinish and prestige in textile and paint -- Dialectics of twining in the Afro-Atlantic diaspora -- Xuly Bët's gestural stitching : a Mali and Afro-Atlantic diaspora process of making -- Stitched forms and Afro-Atlantic mobility -- Xuly Bët models, Basquiat's dress and dreads : street nomadicism from the late nineteen eighties to the nineteen nineties -- Completing the Xuly Bët global circuit : from the Afro-Atlantic to Afro-Pacific -- Questioning Afro-Asian fashions and superficial hybridity
