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

Author/Contributor(s):	Yao, Xine
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	11/12/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.