In Olfactory Worldmaking, Hsuan L. Hsu traces how olfactory experience communicates across visceral, material, and affective registers to offer new ways of relating, which challenge the extractive logics of racial and colonial capitalism. Theorizing olfaction as a speculative, reparative practice, Hsu reveals how these works mobilize scent to imagine alternative ways of sensing, relating, and creating more equitably livable worlds.
Portions of this book were previously published in a different form in “Olfactory Futures in BIPOC Speculative Fiction,” in Literature and the Senses, ed. Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, 253–68 (Oxford University Press, 2023), and in “Olfactory Politics in Black Diasporic Art,” in Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance, ed. Gwenn-Aël Lynn and Debra Riley Parr (Routledge, 2021).
Olfactory Worldmaking by Hsuan L. Hsu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
isbn
978-1-4529-7587-0
issn
2373-5074
publisher
University of Minnesota Press
publisher place
Minneapolis, MN
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