{"product_id":"9781945492433","title":"Stranger Faces","description":"Author: Namwali Serpell\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781945492433\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Transit Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Jan 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 196\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wise, warm, witty and dizzyingly wide-ranging.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Serpell's vital treatise is one readers will find themselves returning to again and again.\"-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf evolutionary biologists, ethical philosophers, and social media gurus are to be believed, the face is the basis for what we call \"humanity.\" The face is considered the source of identity, truth, beauty, authenticity, and empathy. It underlies our ideas about what constitutes a human, how we relate emotionally, what is pleasing to the eye, and how we ought to treat each other. But all of this rests on a specific image of the face. We might call it the ideal face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat about the strange face, the stranger's face, the face that thwarts recognition? What do we make of the face that rides the line of legibility? In a collection of speculative essays on a few such stranger faces-the disabled face, the racially ambiguous face, the digital face, the face of the dead-Namwali Serpell probes our contemporary mythology of the face. \u003ci\u003eStranger Faces\u003c\/i\u003e imagines a new ethics based on the perverse pleasures we take in the very mutability of faces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867115180190,"sku":"ADS-9781945492433","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781945492433.jpg?v=1779430270","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781945492433","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}