Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism - Brossura

Ziarek, Ewa

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ISBN 10: 0231161492 ISBN 13: 9780231161497

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

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 the inaugural possibilities of writing and action. Her study is one of the first to combine an in-depth engagement with philosophical aesthetics, especially the work of Theodor W. Adorno, with women's literary modernism, particularly the writing of Virginia Woolf and Nella Larsen, along with feminist theories on the politics of race and gender. By bringing seemingly apolitical, gender-neutral debates about modernism's experimental forms together with an analysis of violence and destroyed materialities, Ziarek challenges both the anti-aesthetic subordination of modern literature to its political uses and the appreciation of art's emancipatory potential at the expense of feminist and anti-racist political struggles.

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L'autore:

Ewa Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. She is the author ofAn Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy and coeditor ofRevolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis andIntermedialities: Philosophy, Art, Politics.

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Book by Ziarek Ewa Plonowska

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0231161492
• ISBN 13: 9780231161497
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288