Disaffected : The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yao, Xine, 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Perverse modernities.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
Asians in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
Race in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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