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

Disaffected

The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

By
Xine Yao
Xine Yao
2021 • 288 pages

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.

Tags

Become a Librarian

Series

Featured Series

16 released books

Perverse Modernities

Perverse Modernities is a 16-book series with 16 released primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by M. Jacqui Alexander, Gayatri Gopinath, and Kara Keeling.

Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
The Witch's Flight
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects
Freedom with Violence
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment
Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

Reviews

Popular Reviews

Reviews with the most likes.

There are no reviews for this book. Add yours and it'll show up right here!