Disaffected - The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling 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.

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Xine Yao
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781478014836
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-1483-6
• Seiten: 304
• Serien: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Volkskunde