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