DisaffectedIn Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeelingaffects that are not recognized as feelingas a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far engaged major sociopolitical issues in ways that resisted the