American dolorologies : pain, sentimentalism, biopolitics / Simon Strick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strick, Simon, 1974-

Series:

SUNY Press Open Access

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sentimentalism.

Suffering--Social aspects--United States.

Suffering.

Pain--Social aspects--United States.

Pain.

United States--Civilization.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

State University of New York Press 2014

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American Dolorologies presents a theoretically sophisticated intervention into contemporary equations of subjectivity with trauma. Simon Strick argues against a universalism of pain and instead foregrounds the intimate relations of bodily affect with racial and gender politics. In concise and original readings of medical debates, abolitionist photography, Enlightenment philosophy, and contemporary representations of torture, Strick shows the crucial function that evocations of "bodies in pain" serve in the politicization of differences. This book provides a historical contextualization of contemporary ideas of suffering, sympathy, and compassion, thus establishing an embodied genealogy of the pain that is at the heart of American democratic sentiment.

Contents:

What is dolorology?

Sublime pain and the subject of sentimentalism

Anesthesia, birthpain and civilization

Picturing racial pain

Late modern pain.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438450230

1438450230

OCLC:

871257343

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access