For pleasure : race, experimentalism, and aesthetics / Rachel Jane Carroll.
This text argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination. 'For Pleasure' proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the 20th-century United States by creating transformative scenes of pleasure. Rachel Jane Carroll...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Minoritarian aesthetics.
NYU Press scholarship online. |
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| Summary: | This text argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination. 'For Pleasure' proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the 20th-century United States by creating transformative scenes of pleasure. Rachel Jane Carroll explains how aesthetic pleasure is fundamental to the production and circulation of racial meaning in the United States through a study of experimental work by authors and artists of colour. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations (black and white). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479826742 |
| DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9781479826742.001.0001 |