In Sensorium is archive and art, illuminating the great crises of our time with the language of Liberation.

Using the framework of fragrance and scent, the author's work confronts aspects of our society related to women, gender, and people of color. Get Full eBook File name 'InSensoriumNotesforMyPeople-Tanais.pdf. Original Title ISBN '' published on '' in Edition Language: ''. 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. 'We selected In Sensorium by Tanas as the winner of the 2022 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize for its daring, inventiveness, vision, and lyrical eloquence. Download Book 'In Sensorium: Notes for My People' by Author 'Tanais' in PDF EPUB. The 2022 Kirkus Prize Winner for Nonfictionįragrance 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.įocusing their gaze on our most primordial sense, writer and perfumer Tanaïs 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, Tanaïs 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.

In sensorium notes for my people