Strange Tastes
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Strange Tastes

Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms

  1. 339 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Strange Tastes

Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms

About this book

Strange Tastes is a philosophical excursion into aesthetic experience and the public through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. In a careful study of this revelatory archive, Monique Roelofs shows how life lived aesthetically can embrace public space instead of surrendering it to the constrictive forces of gendering and racial capital. Joining notions of sensibility grounded in Enlightenment aesthetics with the creative capabilities of a decolonial aesthetics, Roelofs looks to practices that animate the public through intimate, social, and political registers, particularly by engaging the historical and critical potentialities of disinterested play and what she calls "strange tastes," or the unusual, uncanny, and nonnormative desires and sensations of marginalized individuals. Through sustained attention to materiality and lived experience, Roelofs offers a feminist philosophy of aesthetics that takes seriously the role of the public, where strange tastes turn aesthetic imaginaries into powerful possibilities to remake self, city, nation, and world.

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Information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9781478038658
9781478033752
eBook ISBN
9781478062240
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art Theory & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Aesthetics, Taste, and Public Inhabitance
  5. 1. Dust: A Sniff of Getting Together
  6. 2. Pings: Sounding Out the City
  7. 3. Song: A New Life
  8. 4. Light: Sensibility on Sale
  9. Conclusion: Singing Unsung Stories, Pivoting Positionalities
  10. Notes
  11. References
  12. Index

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