Ugly Feelings

Name: Ugly Feelings
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ISBN: 9780674024090

ISBN-10: 0674024095

ISBN-13: 9780674024090

Edition: 2005

Authors: Sianne Ngai

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Envy, irritation, paranoia--in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing the character of late modernity. Along with her inquiry into the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust, Ngai examines a racialized affect called "animatedness," and a paradoxical synthesis of shock and boredom called "stuplimity." She explores the…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 7.52" wide x 8.19" long x 1.27" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Sianne Ngai is Professor of English at Stanford University.



Introduction



Tone



Animatedness



Envy



Irritation



Anxiety



Stuplimity



Paranoia Afterword: On Disgust


Notes


Index