Kandice Chuh

The Difference Aesthetics Makes

On the Humanities "After Man"

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining the work of writers and artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Allan deSouza, Kandice Chuh advocates for what she calls â illiberal humanismâ as a way to counter the Eurocentric liberal humanism that perpetuates structures of social inequality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000921
• ISBN-10: 1478000929
• Artikelnr.: 53601274

Autorenporträt

Kandice Chuh is Professor of English and American Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique, and coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  xi
Introduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes  1
1. Knowledge under Cover  26
2. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism  51
3. Making Sense Otherwise  74
4. Mis/Taken Universals  89
Conclusion. On the Humanities "After Man"  122
Postscript  126
Notes  131
Bibliography  159
Index  175