{"product_id":"strange-tastes-aesthetics-and-the-public-in-latin-american-and-latinx-feminisms-hardcover","title":"Strange Tastes: Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMonique Roelofs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrange Tastes\u003c\/i\u003e is a philosophical excursion into aesthetic experience and the public through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. In a careful study of this revelatory archive, Monique Roelofs shows how life lived aesthetically can embrace public space instead of surrendering it to the constrictive forces of gendering and racial capital. Joining notions of sensibility grounded in Enlightenment aesthetics with the creative capabilities of a decolonial aesthetics, Roelofs looks to practices that animate the public through intimate, social, and political registers, particularly by engaging the historical and critical potentialities of disinterested play and what she calls \"strange tastes,\" or the unusual, uncanny, and nonnormative desires and sensations of marginalized individuals. Through sustained attention to materiality and lived experience, Roelofs offers a feminist philosophy of aesthetics that takes seriously the role of the public, where strange tastes turn aesthetic imaginaries into powerful possibilities to remake self, city, nation, and world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonique Roelofs is Professor and Chair of Philosophy of Art \u0026amp; Culture and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eArts of Address\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eBlack Art and Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 338\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48429729349881,"sku":"9781478033752","price":194.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/x7xB8e9Sjv9781478033752.webp?v=1779440196","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/strange-tastes-aesthetics-and-the-public-in-latin-american-and-latinx-feminisms-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}