On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America

ISBN-13: 9780190460983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 272 str.

Naomi Greyser

Opis

On Sympathetic Grounds lays out sympathy's vital place in shaping North America. Naomi Greyser intersperses theoretical reflection on the affective production of space with analysis of vales of tears, heart-rending oratory, and emplotment of narrative and land in work by Sojourner Truth, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others.

Recenzje

Greyser maps a new route through the debate over the political and moral efficacy of the sentimental mode. Through erudite analysis and personal reflection, she shows us the value in the pursuit of reciprocity, even when it fails. A vital study, On Sympathetic Grounds challenges accounts of sentimentalism as a white womans genre taken up by people of color, uncovering mutual appropriations and revisionary projects.

O autorze

Naomi Greyser is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, English and Gender Studies at the University of Iowa, where she is also executive director of POROI, Iowas Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry