Abstract:

In Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (2015), Robin Coste Lewis deploys “horrible beauty” as a dissensual aesthetic experience that challenges the perceiving subject. To experience horrible beauty, in Lewis’s poetry, is to be called to reflect on and critique the pathologies of whiteness upheld and perpetuated by aesthetic scenes, as well as to reframe what has been rendered either invisible or hypervisible. By arresting the perceiving subject, horrible beauty functions as a political aesthetic in its critique of the ways that regimes of race, gender, and sexuality both shape and foreclose experience.

中文翻译：

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可怕的美：罗宾·科斯特·刘易斯的黑人美学实践

摘要：

在Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (2015) 中，Robin Coste Lewis 将“可怕的美”描述为一种挑战感知主体的异端审美体验。在刘易斯的诗歌中，要体验可怕的美，就要反思和批判审美场景所支持和延续的白度病态，以及重构那些已经变得不可见或超可见的东西。通过逮捕感知主体，可怕的美在批判种族、性别和性取向的制度塑造和排除体验的方式时，作为一种政治美学发挥作用。