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Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism

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Description for Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism Hardback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the oppressive realities of racist violence and sexism, and she situates these tensions within the entrenched opposition between revolt and melancholia in studies of modernity and within the friction between material injuries and experimental aesthetic forms. Ziarek's political and aesthetic investigations concern the exclusion and destruction of women in politics and literary production and the transformation of this oppression into ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231161480
SKU
V9780231161480
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About Ewa Ziarek
Ewa Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. She is the author of An Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy and coeditor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis and Intermedialities: Philosophy, Art, Politics.

Reviews for Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Elegantly argued and often brilliant in its handling of diverse theoretical traditions, Ewa Ziarek's book will speak equally to those interested in the longer history of post-Kantian art-philosophy and to those working in the more recent discourses of critical theory. A major contribution to several scholarly fields and likely to become a touchstone for those seeking rigorous yet enabling language ... Read more

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