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.
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.
Mimi Thi Nguyen is Associate 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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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
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
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