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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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68 minutes
Released:
Jun 21, 2019
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Podcast episode
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On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo--Dr. Anne Cheng (she/hers)--Professor of English and Director of the Program in American Studies at Princeton University--to discuss an almost revolutionary work of theory and critique: Ornamentalism (Oxford University Press, 2019). Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman and, beyond that, a nuanced reflection on the way in which women of color are subjects-turned-into-things but that not every woman of color becomes-thing in the same way. Cheng insists on the term ornamentalism as both a lever of critique and of emancipation, resisting the easy distinction between person/thing and skin/substance to investigate how a theory of radical style offers ontological possibilities for thriving among injury.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jun 21, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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