Mimi Thi Nguyen

The Promise of Beauty

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Produktbeschreibung

Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe to show how the possibility of beauty can remake social arrangements and political structures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030973
• ISBN-10: 1478030976
• Artikelnr.: 70541071

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Small Art and Love and Beauty  1
1. The Beautiful, Finding Itself in Danger, Desires Its Copy  37
2. An Education in Beauty (and the Necessity of Lawlessness)  70
3. The Right to Be Beautiful without Guarantee  103
4. Beauty’s Ruin at the End of the World  139
5. Living Beautifully, or Resilience  171
Epilogue. In Conclusion, Crime Is Beauty  199
Notes  209
Bibliography  251
Index  287