Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

by Xine Yao

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478014830
• ISBN13: 9781478014836
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"