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The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “After Man”

✍ Scribed by Kandice Chuh

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
192
Category
Library
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Examining the work of writers and artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Allan deSouza, Kandice Chuh advocates for what she calls “illiberal humanism” as a way to counter the Eurocentric liberal humanism that perpetuates structures of social inequality.

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