The promise of beauty /
"The Promise of Beauty examines how the perceived presence and absence of beauty structures cultural and historical inquiry. Drawing on a background in feminist and Asian American studies, Mimi Thi Nguyen approaches beauty as a method that attends to questions of aesthetics and politics from wi...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Small Art and Love and Beauty
- The Beautiful, Finding Itself in Danger, Desires Its Copy
- An Education in Beauty (and the Necessity of Lawlessness)
- The Right to Be Beautiful without Guarantee
- Beauty's Ruin at the End of the World
- Living Beautifully, or Resilience
- In Conclusion, Crime is Beauty.