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Stranger Faces
Engelsk Paperback

Stranger Faces

Engelsk Paperback

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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

A New Yorker Best Book of 2020

"Wise, warm, witty and dizzyingly wide-ranging."—The New York Times

"Serpell’s vital treatise is one readers will find themselves returning to again and again."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

If evolutionary biologists, ethical philosophers, and social media gurus are to be believed, the face is the basis for what we call "humanity." The face is considered the source of identity, truth, beauty, authenticity, and empathy. It underlies our ideas about what constitutes a human, how we relate emotionally, what is pleasing to the eye, and how we ought to treat each other. But all of this rests on a specific image of the face. We might call it the ideal face.

What about the strange face, the stranger''s face, the face that thwarts recognition? What do we make of the face that rides the line of legibility? In a collection of speculative essays on a few such stranger faces—the disabled face, the racially ambiguous face, the digital face, the face of the dead—Namwali Serpell probes our contemporary mythology of the face. Stranger Faces imagines a new ethics based on the perverse pleasures we take in the very mutability of faces.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
196
ISBN-13:
9781945492433
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1945492430
Udg. Dato:
3 dec 2020
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
177mm
Højde:
126mm
Forlag:
Transit Books
Oplagsdato:
3 dec 2020
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