{"product_id":"on-sympathetic-grounds-naomi-greyser-9780190460983","title":"On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America","description":"With its filigreed, formidable representations of tears and suffering, sentimentalism has remained a divisive genre and category of analysis. \u003cem\u003eOn Sympathetic Grounds\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new interpretation of the sentimental by mapping its grounds in North America. During sweeping transformations of territory, land stewardship, personhood, and citizenship in the nineteenth century, sentimentalists evoked sympathy to express a desire for a place that was both territorial and emotional--what Naomi Greyser calls an \"affective geography.\" Greyser traces the intricacies attending Americans' sentimental sense that bodies could merge and mutually occupy the same space at the same time. Affective geographies complicate normative, linear assumptions about intimacy and distance, and consequently compel a reconsideration of geopolitics, geophysics and the distribution of resources and care. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMapping feelings in and also about space, \u003cem\u003eOn Sympathetic Grounds\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the experiences and perspectives of those whose bodies, labor and sovereignty have been occupied to ground others' lives and world-making projects. Bringing literary and rhetorical studies together with critical race and gender theory, cultural geography, American studies, affect studies and the new materialism, this book lays out sentimentalism's usefulness to settler colonialism and the maintenance of racialized labor. The book also carefully charts sentimentalism's value as a means of resisting geographic displacement and both physical and metaphysical dispossession. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhilosophers and rhetoricians regard grounds as necessary conditions for argumentation; Greyser treats grounds as also geopolitical, geoaffective, and geophysical. Sympathy has enriched conditions for living at the same time that it has mercilessly enlisted some bodies and lives as the grounds for others' wellbeing. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eOn Sympathetic Grounds\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers a moving, non-linear cartography of sympathy's vital place in shaping North America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Naomi Greyser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190460989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190460983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2018","brand":"Naomi Greyser","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054618013951,"sku":"9780190460983","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_429b4a8a-50ac-4fad-912c-04cb0501b1e5.jpg?v=1685030994","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-sympathetic-grounds-naomi-greyser-9780190460983","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}