Ugly Feelings / / Sianne NGAI.

Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature--with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race--but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cult...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2004
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • acknowledgments
  • contents
  • introduction
  • 1. tone
  • 2. animatedness
  • 3. envy
  • 4. irritation
  • 5. anxiety
  • 6. stuplimity
  • 7. paranoia
  • afterword: on disgust
  • notes
  • Index