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Zany, Cute, Interesting

Sianne Ngai

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$22.00 • £17.95 • €20.00

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

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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