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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."--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yao, Xine, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2021].
Colección:Perverse modernities.
Temas:
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.