Kandice Chuh: 2 books
The Difference Aesthetics Makes
On the Humanities “After Man”
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls “illiberal humanism” instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Recognizing...
Imagine Otherwise
On Asian Americanist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
Imagine Otherwise is an incisive critique of the field of Asian American studies. Recognizing that the rubric "Asian American" elides crucial differences, Kandice Chuh argues for reframing Asian American studies as a study defined not by its subjects and objects, but by its critique. Toward...