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Strange Tastes : Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roelofs, Monique.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and society--Latin America.
- Art and society.
- Women authors, Latin American--Criticism and interpretation.
- Women authors, Latin American.
- Women artists--Latin America--Criticism and interpretation.
- Women artists.
- Feminist theory--Latin America.
- Feminist theory.
- Feminist aesthetics--Latin America.
- Feminist aesthetics.
- Aesthetics, Latin American--Political aspects.
- Aesthetics, Latin American.
- Aesthetics, Latin American--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Strange Tastes is a philosophical excursion into aesthetic experience and publicnesss through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. In a careful study of this philosophically and politically revelatory archive, Monique Roelofs shows how life lived aesthetically can embrace public space rather than surrender it to the constrictive forces of gendering and racial capital. In a challenge to the principles of neutrality, universality, and disinterestedness that ground Enlightenment aesthetics, Roelofs looks to aesthetic practices that animate the public through intimate, social, and political registers, particularly by engaging the historical and critical potentialities of disinterested play and what she calls "strange tastes," or the unusual, uncanny, and nonnormative desires and sensations that mark the aesthetic experiences of marginalized individuals. Through sustained attention to materiality and lived experience, Roelofs offers a feminist philosophy of aesthetics that takes seriously the role of the public, where strange tastes turn aesthetic imaginaries into powerful possibilities to remake self, city, nation, and world"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Aesthetics, Taste, and Public Inhabitance
- Dust: A Sniff of Getting Together
- Pings: Sounding Out the City
- Song: A New Life
- Light: Sensibility on Sale
- Singing Unsung Stories, Pivoting Positionalities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4780-6224-X
- 9781478062240
- OCLC:
- 1582307791
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