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Description for Rule of Sympathy
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTB; JFF; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
The Rule of Sympathy is a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Although initially associated with feminized or effeminate forms of sentimental discourse (the romance, the novel, the gothic), sympathy came to function as a key technology of gender and race in new evangelical social movements, such as abolitionism and missionizing. Amit Rai argues that sympathy was a paradoxical mode of power. The differences of racial, gender and class inequalities that increasingly divided the object and agent of sympathy were precisely what must be bridged through identification. Yet without ... Read more
The Rule of Sympathy is a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Although initially associated with feminized or effeminate forms of sentimental discourse (the romance, the novel, the gothic), sympathy came to function as a key technology of gender and race in new evangelical social movements, such as abolitionism and missionizing. Amit Rai argues that sympathy was a paradoxical mode of power. The differences of racial, gender and class inequalities that increasingly divided the object and agent of sympathy were precisely what must be bridged through identification. Yet without ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349387625
SKU
V9781349387625
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About A. Rai
AMIT S. RAI wrote his dissertation on national identity formation in the program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford, and had been a full-time faculty member at the New School since 1996. He has written extensively on postcolonial cultural studies, film, race theory, diasporic identity, and the Internet. He is currently writing a book on Hindi films and globalization. ... Read more
Reviews for Rule of Sympathy
"Rule of Sympathy brings into focus issues that have occupied the margins of colonial studies for years." - Ann Laura Stoler, University of Michigan "Subtle, wide-ranging, and magisterial, Rule of Sympathy is a rich and provocative contribution." - Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz