In Sensorium by Tanais

In Sensorium by Tanais

Fragrance has long been used to mark who is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is polluted, who is free and who is damned--

Focusing their gaze on our most primordial sense, writer and perfumer Tana s weaves a brilliant and expansive memoir, a reckoning that offers a critical, alternate history of South Asia from an American Bangladeshi Muslim femme perspective. From stories of their childhood in the South, Midwest, and New York; to transcendent experiences with lovers, psychedelics, and fragrances; to trips home to their motherland, Tana s builds a universe of memories and scent: a sensorium. Alongside their personal history, and at the very heart of this work, is an interrogation of the ancient violence of caste, rape culture, patriarchy, war, and the inherited ancestral trauma of being from a lush land constantly denuded, a land still threatened and disappearing because of colonization, capitalism, and climate change.

Tana s sharply examines how, throughout history, humans have divided themselves by odor, what they found putrescent versus pleasant--between the sick and the healthy, the poor and the rich, the polluted and the pure, the enslaved and the enslaver, the Dalit and the Brahmin.

Structured like a perfume--moving from base to heart to head notes--IN SENSORIUM interlaces eons of South Asian perfume history, erotic and religious texts, survivor testimonies, and material culture with memoir. In Sensorium is archive and art, illuminating the great crises of our time with the language of Liberation.

TANA�S is a perfumer and author of In Sensorium, which will be published in 2022, and the critically acclaimed novel Bright Lines, which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, and the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize. They are the recipient of residencies at MacDowell, Tin House, and Djerassi. Their fragrance, beauty and design studio TANA�S is based in New York City. Follow them on Instagram at @studiotanais

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ISBN 13	9780358381709
ISBN 10	0358381703
Titre	In Sensorium
Auteur	Tanais
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Éditeur	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Année de publication	2022-02-22
Nombre de pages	352
Prix	Winner of Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2022
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