UID:
edocfu_9959760784802883
Format:
1 online resource (1 online resource)
ISBN:
1-4780-1389-3
,
1-4780-2210-8
Series Statement:
Perverse modernities
Content:
"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."--
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4780-1483-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478022107
