- Hardcover: 229 pages
- Publisher: State University of New York Press (April 1, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1438450214
- ISBN-13: 978-1438450216
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.
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