Disaffected The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America - Perverse Modernities

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

ISBN:	9781478014836
Publisher:	Duke University Press Books
Imprint:	Duke University Press
Published date:	12 Nov 2021
DEWEY:	810.9353
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	304 .
Weight:	422g
Height:	152mm
Width:	230mm
Spine width:	19mm

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