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9780195146332

Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195146332

  • ISBN10:

    0195146336

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-01-10
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age examines a variety of significant multidisciplinary and multicultural topics within the subject of aesthetics. Addressing the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to current political and cultural concerns, the contributors to this volume attempt to bridge the two decades-old gap between scholars and critics who hold conflicting views of the purposes of art and criticism. By exploring some of the ways in which global migration and expanding ethnic diversity are affecting cultural productions and prompting reassessment of the nature and role of aesthetic discourse, this volume provides a new evaluation of aesthetic ideas and practices within contemporary arts and letters.

Author Biography


Emory Elliott is University Professor at the University of California, Riverside. Louis Freitas Caton is Professor of English at Auburn University. Jeffrey Rhyne is a graduate fellow in English at the University of California, Riverside.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction: Cultural Diversity and the Problem of Aesthetics
Challenges to an Aesthetics of Diversity
Can Our Values Be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progressive Politics
The Pragmatics of the Aesthetic
Aesthetics and Cultural Studies
The Resistance to Cultural Studies
Redefining Categories of Value and Difference
Desegregating American Literary Studies
Difference and Disciplinarity
Doing Justice to C.L.R. James's Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways
Mumbo Jumbo, Theory, and the Aesthetics of Wholeness
Aesthetic Judgment and the Public Sphere
Aesthetics Again? The Pleasures and the Dangers
"Every man knows where and how beauty gives him pleasure": Beauty Discourse and the Logic of Aesthetics
The Aesthetics of Wounding: Trauma, Self-Representation, and the Critical Voice
Beautiful Identities: When History Turns State's Evidence
Toward a Pluralist Aesthetics
Afterword
Index
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