{"product_id":"for-pleasure-9781479826728","title":"For Pleasure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShortlisted, 2024 MLA Prize Prize for a First Book, given by the Modern Language Association \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist\u003cbr\u003edomination\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the twentieth-century United States\u003cbr\u003eby creating transformative scenes of pleasure. Rachel Jane Carroll explains how aesthetic pleasure is\u003cbr\u003efundamental to the production and circulation of racial meaning in the United States through a study of\u003cbr\u003eexperimental work by authors and artists of color.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e offers methods for reading experimental literature and art produced by racially minoritized\u003cbr\u003eauthors and artists working in and around the US, including Isaac Julien, Nella Larsen, Yoko Ono, Jack\u003cbr\u003eWhitten, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon, Zora Neale Hurston, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Cici Wu. Along the\u003cbr\u003eway, we learn what a racist joke has to do with the history of monochrome painting, if beauty has a part\u003cbr\u003eto play in social change, and whether whimsy should be taken seriously as a political affect. Carroll\u003cbr\u003edraws attention to key connections between aesthetic pleasure and experimentation through their\u003cbr\u003eshared capacity for world-building. Neither aesthetic pleasure nor experimental forms are liberatory in\u003cbr\u003eand of themselves; however, both can interrupt, defamiliarize, and rearrange our habits of aesthetic\u003cbr\u003ejudgment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel Jane Carroll","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274169004283,"sku":"9781479826728","price":94.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_3275a895-b8b7-43ff-9ae3-39391315c17a.jpg?v=1771033943","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/for-pleasure-9781479826728","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}