In Sensorium

In Sensorium
Author :
Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 287
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780358380412
ISBN-13 : 0358380413
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Book Synopsis In Sensorium by : Tanaïs

Download or read book In Sensorium written by Tanaïs and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2022 Kirkus Prize Winner for Nonfiction Fragrance has long been used to mark who is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is polluted, who is free and who is damned— Focusing their gaze on our most primordial sense, writer and perfumer Tanaïs weaves a brilliant and expansive memoir, a reckoning that offers a critical, alternate history of South Asia from an American Bangladeshi Muslim femme perspective. From stories of their childhood in the South, Midwest, and New York; to transcendent experiences with lovers, psychedelics, and fragrances; to trips home to their motherland, Tanaïs builds a universe of memories and scent: a sensorium. Alongside their personal history, and at the very heart of this work, is an interrogation of the ancient violence of caste, rape culture, patriarchy, war, and the inherited ancestral trauma of being from a lush land constantly denuded, a land still threatened and disappearing because of colonization, capitalism, and climate change. Structured like a perfume—moving from base to heart to head notes—IN SENSORIUM interlaces eons of South Asian perfume history, erotic and religious texts, survivor testimonies, and material culture with memoir. In Sensorium is archive and art, illuminating the great crises of our time with the language of Liberation.


In Sensorium Related Books

In Sensorium
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Tanaïs
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-22 - Publisher: HarperCollins

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The 2022 Kirkus Prize Winner for Nonfiction Fragrance has long been used to mark who is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is polluted, who is f
The Sensorium of God
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Stuart Clark
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-02 - Publisher: Birlinn

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

It is the late seventeenth century and still the movement of the planets remains a mystery despite the revolutionary work of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei an
The Horror Sensorium
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Angela Ndalianis
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-03 - Publisher: McFarland

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Horror films, books and video games engage their audiences through combinations of storytelling practices, emotional experiences, cognitive responses and physic
Sensorium
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Barbara Bolt
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-10 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book presents a timely reconfiguration of the relations between art, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Through connection with a range of contemporary so
The Saturated Sensorium
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Henning Laugerud
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-30 - Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Saturated Sensorium is a book about the senses and their media in the Middle Ages: a book about what it meant to sense and perceive something. The book high