Disaffected : The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America /
"In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2021.
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Collection: | Perverse modernities.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.