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Zany, Cute, Interesting

Sianne Ngai

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ISBN 9780674088122

Publication Date: 10/05/2015

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344 pages

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

44 halftones, 4 line illustrations

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Introduction
1. The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde
2. Merely Interesting
3. The Zany Science
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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Read a Kunstkritikk interview with Sianne Ngai on why, in a world that is wrong, art needs to embrace error
Read a 2020 Chronicle of Higher Education profile of Professor Ngai, the “most influential literary theorist of her generation”
At Politics/Letters, read a 2016 interview with Ngai
Read an excerpt from Our Aesthetic Categories at The Margins, the magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Read more about Ngai’s work on “the new aesthetic of ‘aww!’” in the Chronicle Review
Read Cabinet Magazine’s 2011 interview with Ngai

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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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