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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478030973ISBN-10:1478030976UPC:9781478030973Book Category:Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, MovementsBook Topic:American, Critical TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCAZ2B7EVV
The Promise of Beauty
In The Promise of Beauty, Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe. Nguyen conceptualizes beauty, which, she observes, we turn to in emergencies and times of destruction, as a tool to identify and bridge the discrepancy between the world as it is and what it ought to be. Drawing widely from aesthetic and critical theories,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478030973ISBN-10:1478030976UPC:9781478030973Book Category:Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, MovementsBook Topic:American, Critical TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCAZ2B7EVV
Mimi Thi Nguyen is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; author of The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages; and coeditor of Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader, both also published by Duke University Press.
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