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Disaffected : the cultural politics of unfeeling in nineteenth-century America
- Title
- Disaffected : the cultural politics of unfeeling in nineteenth-century America / Xine Yao.
- Author
- Yao, Xine, 1985-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 291 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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 Herman Melville, Martin Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far engaged major sociopolitical issues in ways that resisted the weaponization of white sentimentalism against the lives of people of color. Exploring variously pathologized, racialized, queer, and gendered affective modes like unsympathetic Blackness, queer female frigidity, and Oriental inscrutability, these authors departed from the values that undergird the politics of recognition and the liberal project of inclusion. By theorizing feeling otherwise as an antisocial affect, form of dissent, and mode of care, Yao suggests that unfeeling can serve as a contemporary political strategy for people of color to survive in the face of continuing racism and white fragility. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient"--
- Series Statement
- Perverse modernities
- Uniform Title
- Perverse modernities.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century
- Race in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Asians in literature
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
- Affect (Psychology) in literature
- Sentimentalism in literature
- Emotions in literature
- American literature
- Literature and society
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-711
- ISBN
- 9781478013891
- 1478013893
- 9781478014836
- 1478014830
- 1478022108
- 9781478022107
- 9781478022107 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021002641
- OCLC
- 1240412894
- Author
- Yao, Xine, 1985- author.
- Title
- Disaffected : the cultural politics of unfeeling in nineteenth-century America / Xine Yao.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Perverse modernitiesPerverse modernities.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Yao, Xine, 1985- Disaffected. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021 9781478022107 (DLC) 2021002642
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-711