On Sympathetic Grounds
Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 December 2017
- ISBN 9780190460983
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 155x236x22 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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With its filigreed, formidable representations of tears and suffering, sentimentalism has remained a divisive genre and category of analysis. On Sympathetic Grounds offers a new interpretation of the sentimental by mapping its grounds in North America. During sweeping transformations of territory, land stewardship, personhood, and citizenship in the nineteenth century, sentimentalists evoked sympathy to express a desire for a place that was both territorial and emotional--what Naomi Greyser calls an "affective geography." Greyser traces the intricacies attending Americans sentimental sense that bodies could merge and mutually occupy the same space at the same time. Affective geographies complicate normative, linear assumptions about intimacy and distance, and consequently compel a reconsideration of geopolitics, geophysics and the distribution of resources and care.
Mapping feelings in and also about space, On Sympathetic Grounds focuses on the experiences and perspectives of those whose bodies, labor, space and sovereignty have been occupied to ground others' lives and world-making projects. Bringing literary and rhetorical studies together with critical race and gender theory, cultural geography, American studies, affect studies and the new materialism, this book lays out sentimentalism's usefulness to settler colonialism and the maintenance of racialized labour. The book also carefully charts sentimentalisms value as a means of resisting geographic displacement and both physical and metaphysical dispossession.
Philosophers and rhetoricians regard grounds as necessary conditions for argumentation; Greyser treats grounds as geopolitical, geoaffective, and geophysical. Sympathy has enriched conditions for living at the same time that it has mercilessly enlisted some bodies and lives as the grounds for others' wellbeing. Ultimately, On Sympathetic Grounds uncovers a capacious, non-linear cartography of sympathy's vital place in shaping North America.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Paper Trail of Tears: Sentimental Sovereignty, Indian Removal and Staking Claims on North America
Chapter 2: The Ethical Bind of Sentimentalism:Rhetorical Intimacy in the Public Sphere and the Many Narratives of Sojourner Truth
Chapter 3: Between Intimacy and Distance, a "Neutral Territory": Sentimentalism, Writer's Block and Untouchable Masculinity in The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 4: Plotting Maidens and Traitors: Sympathy, Displacement and Survivance in "the New Southwest"
Chapter 5: "Do I Not All Thy Sorrows Heed, And Bear Thee on My Heart?" Harriet E. Wilson and the Unsympathetic Materialism of White Northern Domesticity
Epilogue
