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Rachel Jane Carroll - For Pleasure, Inbunden

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For Pleasure

Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics

Av Rachel Jane Carroll

Del i serien Minoritarian Aesthetics

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Shortlisted, 2024 MLA Prize Prize for a First Book, given by the Modern Language Association Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racistdominationFor Pleasure proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the twentieth-century United Statesby creating transformative scenes of pleasure. Rachel Jane Carroll explains how aesthetic pleasure isfundamental to the production and circulation of racial meaning in the United States through a study ofexperimental work by authors and artists of color.For Pleasure offers methods for reading experimental literature and art produced by racially minoritizedauthors and artists working in and around the US, including Isaac Julien, Nella Larsen, Yoko Ono, JackWhitten, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon, Zora Neale Hurston, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Cici Wu. Along theway, we learn what a racist joke has to do with the history of monochrome painting, if beauty has a partto play in social change, and whether whimsy should be taken seriously as a political affect. Carrolldraws attention to key connections between aesthetic pleasure and experimentation through theirshared capacity for world-building. Neither aesthetic pleasure nor experimental forms are liberatory inand of themselves; however, both can interrupt, defamiliarize, and rearrange our habits of aestheticjudgment.
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Rachel Jane Carroll is the ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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"In a world where the category of race too easily conjures up the ugliest aspects of socialinequality, xenophobia, and racial violence, Rachel Carroll's exquisite new book reminds us thatracial difference can also be a site of extraordinary beauty, imagination, and communion.Through a meticulous and generous reading of twentieth-century experimental culturalforms, For Pleasure recovers a tradition of Black and Asian American artists refiguring race asan open invitation to ceaselessly play with and recombine the various facets of phenotypicaldifference. The artists Carroll assembles ultimately aim to wholly disorganize our sense of whatcounts as beautiful, opening up the field of pleasure to continual revision." - Ramzi Fawaz, author of Queer Forms "Thrilling and inventive at every turn. Carroll seeks to recover aesthetic and erotic pleasure inliterary, visual, and performative art, and she does so in unexpected ways and places. In arguingthat aesthetic pleasure and innovation can undo the unfreedom of racism in which we findourselves, this well-argued and stylistically sophisticated book reveals experimental art to be anundeniable vehicle of social theory." - GerShun Avilez, University of Maryland

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