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, a...
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.
作者简介
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Xine Yao is Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 at University College London.
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Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Disaffected from the Culture of Sentiment 1
1. The Babo Problem: White Sentimentalism and Unsympathetic Blackness in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno 29
2. Feeling Otherwise: Martin R. Delany, Black-Indigenous Counterintimacies, and the Possibility of a New World 70
3. The Queer Frigidity of Professionalism: White Women Doctors, the Struggle for Rights, and the Marriage Plot 107
4. Objective Passionless: Black Women Doctors and Dispassionate Strategies of Uplifting Love 138
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Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Disaffected from the Culture of Sentiment 1
1. The Babo Problem: White Sentimentalism and Unsympathetic Blackness in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno 29
2. Feeling Otherwise: Martin R. Delany, Black-Indigenous Counterintimacies, and the Possibility of a New World 70
3. The Queer Frigidity of Professionalism: White Women Doctors, the Struggle for Rights, and the Marriage Plot 107
4. Objective Passionless: Black Women Doctors and Dispassionate Strategies of Uplifting Love 138
5. Oriental Inscrutability: Sui Sin Far, Chinese Faces, and the Modern Apparatuses of U.S. Immigration 171
Coda. Notes toward a Disaffected Manifesto beyond Survival 208
Notes 211
Bibliography 243
Index
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Sympathy, much like the present workings of affect studies in the acad- emy, has operated as a strategy of engulfment to subordinate non-Western taxonomies and paradigms of affect, emotion, and feeling as mere variations if not to outright invalidate them beyond the threshold of recognition as feeling. In this sense, sympathy functions as the fundamental condition of affective intelligibility for the spectrum of feelings in all degrees of expres- siveness and intensities. To understand the erasures of the unfeeling, we must read the archive in oppositional ways. (查看原文)
Powerful powerful ideas!! The colonial history of sympathy與unfeeling as moving towards a new structure of feelings 只是不知是否只有我一人覺得Yao有時例子和argumenmt並沒有match…
以“无感”（unfeeling）反拨所谓“普世情感”的种族化运作，追问共情政治与承认政治的限度："To depend upon white feelings as the catalyst for social change reinscribes the world that enables their power." "Refuse to feel according to the hiera...以“无感”（unfeeling）反拨所谓“普世情感”的种族化运作，追问共情政治与承认政治的限度："To depend upon white feelings as the catalyst for social change reinscribes the world that enables their power." "Refuse to feel according to the hierarchies of the biopolitics of feeling."(展开)
5 有用 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒌𝒆𝒊𝒕 2023-06-29 15:12:14 江苏
速读了一下导论。只能说，最令人激动的东西就是标题里的disaffected和unfeeling这俩概念的字面，但也仅此而已了。我发现美国近几年的不少学术著作都是如此，总能提出一些看起来非常fancy的概念，但一到具体论述就匠气十足，令人失望。不过，至少比国内的废纸博论要好得多。
3 有用 Narranolan 2022-01-24 19:39:27
对于affect studies的局限性的揭露很有洞见。但是匠气有余，灵气不足。（feeling, affect, affective, affectability, affection...满天飞真的有点overdosed。
1 有用 溪山 2022-10-14 20:02:48 浙江
写的好棒！深挖普世同情背后居高临下的实质，正是因为惧怕disaffection才把它打入冷宫，投射给异类，但如今是时候激活它，正视所有的负面情绪
1 有用 Dust Blessur 2022-03-10 08:46:48
Powerful powerful ideas!! The colonial history of sympathy與unfeeling as moving towards a new structure of feelings 只是不知是否只有我一人覺得Yao有時例子和argumenmt並沒有match…
2 有用 Cory 2022-01-09 01:57:25
以“无感”（unfeeling）反拨所谓“普世情感”的种族化运作，追问共情政治与承认政治的限度："To depend upon white feelings as the catalyst for social change reinscribes the world that enables their power." "Refuse to feel according to the hiera... 以“无感”（unfeeling）反拨所谓“普世情感”的种族化运作，追问共情政治与承认政治的限度："To depend upon white feelings as the catalyst for social change reinscribes the world that enables their power." "Refuse to feel according to the hierarchies of the biopolitics of feeling." (展开)