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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nguyen, Mimi Thi, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.