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dc.contributor.editorBoyle, Jen
dc.contributor.editorKao, Wan-Chuan
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-26 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-23 14:09:07
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:39:32Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:39:32Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier1004654
dc.identifierOCN: 1048123028en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25441
dc.description.abstractIs it possible to conceive of a Hello Kitty Middle Ages or a Tickle Me Elmo Renaissance? The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first reference to “cute” in the sense of “attractive, pretty, charming” to 1834. More recently, Sianne Ngai has offered a critical overview of the cuteness of the twentieth-century avant-garde within the context of consumer culture. But if cuteness can get under the skin, what kinds of surfaces does it best infiltrate, particularly in the framework of historical forms, events, and objects that traditionally have been read as emergences around “big” aesthetics of formal symmetries, high affects, and resemblances? The Retrofuturism of Cuteness seeks to undo the temporal strictures surrounding aesthetic and affective categories, to displace a strict focus on commodification and cuteness, and to interrogate how cuteness as a minor aesthetics can refocus our perceptions and readings of both premodern and modern media, literature, and culture. Taking seriously the retro and the futuristic temporalities of cuteness, this volume puts in conversation projects that have unearthed remnants of a “cult of cute”—positioned historically and critically in between transitions into secularization, capitalist frameworks of commodification, and the enchantment of objects—and those that have investigated the uncanny haunting of earlier aesthetics in future-oriented modes of cuteness.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: generalen_US
dc.subject.othercuteness
dc.subject.otherWilliam Shakespeare
dc.subject.otherRenaissance literature
dc.subject.otherBollywood
dc.subject.otherSecond Life
dc.subject.othercultural studies
dc.titleThe Retro-Futurism of Cuteness
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21983/P3.0188.1.00
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13
oapen.relation.isbn9781947447295
oapen.relation.isbn9781947447288
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages268
oapen.place.publicationBrooklyn, NY
oapen.identifier.ocn1048123028


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