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Disaffected
The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America
Taschenbuch von Xine Yao
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
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.
Über den Autor
Xine Yao is Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 at University College London.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478014836
ISBN-10: 1478014830
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Yao, Xine
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 224 x 150 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Xine Yao
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,416 kg
Artikel-ID: 119615173
Über den Autor
Xine Yao is Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 at University College London.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478014836
ISBN-10: 1478014830
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Yao, Xine
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 224 x 150 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Xine Yao
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,416 kg
Artikel-ID: 119615173
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