A nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and
YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelson's Bluets As
Daphne B. obsessively watches YouTube makeup tutorials and haunts
Sephora's website, she's 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 Manley-like Daphne, a Montreal poet and
essayist-the book's 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 Pelletier, Lettres Quebecoises, five stars
"Made-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,
Daphne B. plumbs the depths of a rich topic that's 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 Points "A companion through the thicket
of late stage capitalism, a lucid and poetic mirror for anyone
whose image exists on a screen." -Rachel Kauder Nalebuff "Made-Up
is anything but-committed to the grit of our current realities,
Daphne 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 Islam
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