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1 online resource (ix, 291 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Perverse modernities
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Perverse modernities.
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| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: disaffected from the culture of sentiment -- The Babo problem : white sentimentalism and unsympathetic Blackness in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno -- Feeling otherwise : Martin R. Delany, Black-Indigenous counterintimacies, and the possibility of a new world -- The queer frigidity of professionalism : white women doctors, the struggle for rights, and the marriage plot -- Objective passionless : Black women doctors and dispassionate strategies of uplifting love -- Oriental inscrutability : Sui Sin Far, Chinese faces, and the modern apparatuses of U.S. immigration -- Coda: notes toward a disaffected manifesto beyond survival. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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19th century |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Affect (Psychology) in literature.
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Affect (Psychology) in literature. |
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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Emotions in literature.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature. |
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African Americans in literature.
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Sentimentalism in literature. |
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Asians in literature.
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Asians in literature. |
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Emotions in literature. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. |
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African Americans in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yao, Xine, 1985- Disaffected. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021 9781478013891 9781478014836 (DLC) 2021002641 (OCoLC)1240412894 |
| ISBN |
1478022108 |
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9781478022107 (electronic book) |
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9781478013891 (hardcover) |
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1478013893 (hardcover) |
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9781478014836 (paperback) |
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1478014830 (paperback) |
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