Xine Yao

Disaffected

The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781478013891
• ISBN-10: 1478013893
• Artikelnr.: 61112077

Autorenporträt

Xine Yao is Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 at University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Disaffected from the Culture of Sentiment  1
1. The Babo Problem: White Sentimentalism and Unsympathetic Blackness in
Herman Melville's Benito Cereno  29
2. Feeling Otherwise: Martin R. Delany, Black-Indigenous Counterintimacies,
and the Possibility of a New World  70
3. The Queer Frigidity of Professionalism: White Women Doctors, the
Struggle for Rights, and the Marriage Plot  107
4. Objective Passionless: Black Women Doctors and Dispassionate Strategies
of Uplifting Love  138
5. Oriental Inscrutability: Sui Sin Far, Chinese Faces, and the Modern
Apparatuses of U.S. Immigration  171
Coda. Notes toward a Disaffected Manifesto beyond Survival  208
Notes  211
Bibliography  243
Index