"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 ho…
"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 ho…
"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."--