Chuh The Difference Aesthetics Makes

On the Humanities “After Man”
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0238-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

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 “illiberal humanism” as a way to counter the Eurocentric liberal humanism that perpetuates structures of social inequality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chuh, Kandice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.