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Disaffected : the cultural politics of unfeeling in nineteenth-century America /
"Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling--affects such as coldness, insensitivity and sexual frigidity that are not recognized as feeling--as a means of survival and refusal for people of color and queer people in nineteenth-century America."--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2021].
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| Colección: | Perverse modernities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: disaffected from the culture of sentiment
- The Babo problem : white sentimentalism and unsympathetic Blackness in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
- Feeling otherwise : Martin R. Delany, Black-Indigenous counterintimacies, and the possibility of a new world
- The queer frigidity of professionalism : white women doctors, the struggle for rights, and the marriage plot
- Objective passionless : Black women doctors and dispassionate strategies of uplifting love
- Oriental inscrutability : Sui Sin Far, Chinese faces, and the modern apparatuses of U.S. immigration
- Coda: notes toward a disaffected manifesto beyond survival.