Ugly Feelings

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 cultural criticism.

• | By (Author): Sianne Ngai
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2007
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 432 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0674024095
• | ISBN-13: 9780674024090