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

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

Xine Yao

288 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 u...

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