Olfactory Worldmaking (Forerunners: Ideas First) - Brossura

Hsuan L. Hsu

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1517921236 ISBN 13: 9781517921231

Casa editrice: University Of Minnesota Press, 2026

Riassunto

Exploring the power of smell to build connections and transform our world

Smell is a vital, if underappreciated, medium through which we inhabit and imagine the world. In Olfactory Worldmaking, Hsuan L. Hsu traces how olfactory experience communicates across visceral, material, and affective registers to offer new ways of relating, which challenge the extractive logics of racial and colonial capitalism. Blending environmental humanities, sensory studies, and critical ethnic studies, the book highlights how scent animates suppressed histories and marginalized memories.

Hsu theorizes olfaction as a speculative, reparative practice. Examining projects from historical novels, memoirs, and speculative fiction to conceptual art and experimental perfumes, he reveals how these works mobilize scent to imagine alternative ways of sensing, relating, and creating more equitably livable worlds.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Hsuan L. Hsu is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization; The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics; and Air Conditioning.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University Of Minnesota Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1517921236
• ISBN 13: 9781517921231
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 134
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile