Olfactory Worldmaking
$24.01
- Paperback
134 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
Exploring the power of smell to build connections and transform our world
Smell is a vital, if underappreciated, medium through which we inhabit and imagine the world. 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. Blending environmental humanities, sensory studies, and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781517921231 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1517921236 |
| Author: | Hsuan L. Hsu |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 134 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 127mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Forerunners: Ideas First |
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Critics Review
“By articulating scent as both a multilayered medium and an ethical practice, Hsu’s work situates sensory experience squarely within contemporary debates in societal multimodality while simultaneously challenging the field to grapple with the unresolved frictions, contradictions, and inequalities that attend atmospheric and olfactory relations.” –Multimodality Society
Hsuan L. Hsu
Hsuan L. Hsu is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization; The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics; and Air Conditioning.
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