02927oam 22006614a 450 991046417230332120231116191341.097814384502301438450230(CKB)3710000000089630(EBL)3408846(SSID)ssj0001133345(PQKBManifestationID)11626454(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133345(PQKBWorkID)11157807(PQKB)10869008(OCoLC)871257343(MdBmJHUP)muse31922(Au-PeEL)EBL3408846(CaPaEBR)ebr10838922(ScCtBLL)03237f93-895b-4c4f-8f38-8925d1abc551(MiAaPQ)EBC3408846(Perlego)2674094(oapen)doab34651(EXLCZ)99371000000008963020130415d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerican dolorologies pain, sentimentalism, biopolitics /Simon StrickState University of New York Press2014Albany :State University of New York Press,[2014]©[2014]1 online resourceSUNY Press Open AccessDescription based upon print version of record.9781438450216 1438450214 Includes bibliographical references and index.What is dolorology? -- Sublime pain and the subject of sentimentalism -- Anesthesia, birthpain and civilization -- Picturing racial pain -- Late modern pain.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.SentimentalismSufferingSocial aspectsUnited StatesPainSocial aspectsUnited StatesUnited StatesCivilizationSentimentalism.SufferingSocial aspectsPainSocial aspects306.4Strick Simon1974-863625MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910464172303321American dolorologies1927578UNINA