Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility

by Erin Y. Huang

Book Overview

In Urban Horror Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal post-socialist China. Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics from Engels and Merleau-Ponty to Lefebvre and Ranci re, Huang traces the emergence and mediation of what she calls urban horror--a sociopolitical public affect that exceeds comprehension and provides the grounds for possible future revolutionary dissent. She...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478008091
• ISBN13: 9781478008095
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"