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Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Contributor(s): Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska (Author)

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 ISBN: 0231161484     ISBN-13: 9780231161480
Publisher: Columbia University Press
OUR PRICE: $115.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
- Literary Criticism | Feminist
Dewey: 305.420
LCCN: 2012006808
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.10 lbs) 288 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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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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