Disaffected

The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5782096
AutoresXine Yao (0000-0002-5207-2618, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Data de publicação2021-09-22
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoDisaffected (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9781478022107
OpenAlexW3200867488
Open LibraryOL35254589M
ISBN9781478022107
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6

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 R. 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

Aesthetics · Affect · Affect (linguistics) · Art · Criminology · Dissent · Face (sociological concept) · Feeling · Inclusion (mineral) · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Racism · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology · Affect (Psychology) in literature · African americans in literature · American · American literature · Asians in literature · Emotions in literature · Ethnic Studies · History · History and criticism · Literary Criticism · Literature and society · Race in literature · Sentimentalism in literature · Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature

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