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Zany, Cute, Interesting

Sianne Ngai

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$23.00 • £18.95 • €20.50

ISBN 9780674088122

Publication Date: 10/05/2015

* Academic Trade

344 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

44 halftones, 4 line illustrations

World

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Sianne Ngai is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Ugly Feelings and Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, winner of the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize. Her work has been translated into multiple languages.

Awards & Accolades

2013 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Source Work, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association

2012 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association

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