SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 COLE FOUNDATION PRIZE FOR TRANSLATIONA nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelsons BluetsAs Daphn B. obsessively watches YouTube makeup tutorials and haunts Sephoras website, shes increasingly troubled by the ways in which this obsession contradicts her anti-capitalist and intersectional feminist politics. In this poetic treatise, she rejects the false binaries of traditional beauty standards and delves into the celebrities and influencers, from Kylie to Grimes, and the poets and philosophers, from Anne Boyer to Audre Lorde, who have shaped the reflection she sees in the mirror. At once confessional and essayistic, Made-Up is a meditation on the makeup that colours, that obscures, that highlights who we are and who we wish we could be.The original French-language edition was a cult hit in Quebec. Translated by Alex Manleylike Daphn, a Montreal poet and essayistthe books English-language text crackles with life, retaining the flair and verve of the original, and ensuring that a book on beauty is no less beautiful than its subject matter.The most radical book of 2020 talks about makeup. Radical in the intransigence with which Daphne B hunts down the parts of her imagination that capitalism has phagocytized. Radical also in its rejection of false binaries (the authentic and the fake, the futile and the essential) through the lens of which such a subject is generally considered. With the help of a heady combination of pop cultural criticism and autobiography, a poet scrutinizes her contradictions. They are also ours. Dominic Tardif, Le Devoir[Made-Up] is a delight. I read it in one go. And when, out of necessity, I had to put it down, it was with regret and with the feeling that I was giving up what could save me from a catastrophe. Laurence Fournier, Lettres Qubcoises, five starsMade-Up is a radiant, shimmering blend of memoir and cultural criticism that uses beauty culture as an entry point to interrogating the ugly contradictions of late capitalism. In short, urgent chapters laced with humor and wide-ranging references, Daphn B. plumbs the depths of a rich topic thats typically dismissed as shallow. I imagine her writing it in eye pencil, using makeup to tell the story of her life, as so many women do. Amy Berkowitz, author of Tender PointsA companion through the thicket of late stage capitalism, a lucid and poetic mirror for anyone whose image exists on a screen. Rachel Kauder NalebuffMade-Up is anything butcommitted to the grit of our current realities, Daphn B directs her piercing eye on capitalism in an intimate portrayal of what it means to love, and how to paint ourselves in the process. Alex Manley has gifted English audiences with a nuanced translation of a critical feminist text, exploring love and make-up as a transformative social tool. Sruti IslamThe book will leave you both laughing in recognition and wincing at the reality of the beauty worlds impact on our collective psyche. Chatelaine[Made-Up] examines the intersection of beauty culture and consumer culture... Aided by the work of writers like Anne Carson, Anne Boyer, Amanda Hess, and Arabelle Sicardi... B. makes sharp observations about the ideologies behind both beauty [...] and consumerism. Bitch MediaMadeUp: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism is well worth reading. Literary Review of Canada[Made-Up], newly translated by writer/poet Alex Manley from its original French, puts an intersectional, feminist lens on the authors personal fascination with the makeup industry; it also reckons with the cultural dominance of this fascination as she aims to square anti-capitalist principles with beauty-product obsession. BitchReads: 11 Books Feminists Should Read in September
Erscheint lt. Verlag |
19.10.2021
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Übersetzer |
Alex Manley |
Sprache |
englisch |
Themenwelt
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Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
Schlagworte |
Anne Boyer • Beauty • Capitalism • Elon Musk • exploded views • Feminism • Grimes • Instagram • Jaclyn Hill • James Charles • Jeffree Star • Kylie Jenner • Makeup • Montreal • Online shopping • sephora • shane dawson • Social Media • Tati • T.S. Eliot • youtube |
ISBN-10 |
1-77056-682-1 / 1770566821 |
ISBN-13 |
978-1-77056-682-8 / 9781770566828 |
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