For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics

Proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the twentieth-century United States by creating transformative scenes of pleasure. Carroll explains how aesthetic pleasure is fundamental to the production and circulation of racial meaning in the United States through a study of experimental work by authors and artists of color.

• | Author: Rachel Jane Carroll
• | Publisher: New York University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 12, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781479826735
• | ISBN-10: 1479826731