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Zany, Cute, Interesting

Sianne Ngai

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$21.50 • £17.95 • €19.50

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 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, and she has received fellowships from the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin and the American Council of Learned Societies.

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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