Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai
A critical study of the minor, negative affects—envy, irritation, paranoia, resentment and related “ugly” feelings—that treats them not as mere pathologies but as culturally and aesthetically significant responses to modern social life; through close readings of literature, film and theory, the book shows how these feelings shape attention and form, index political and economic contradictions (especially under late capitalism), and help explain how aesthetic objects and social relations reproduce and reveal power, inequality and injustice.
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- Published
- 2005
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- American
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- English
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