Affection: Essays on Affect, Empathy, and the Politics of Feeling

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dc.contributor.advisorComer, Krista
dc.creatorLi-Wang, Jennifer
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-13T14:03:36Z
dc.date.available2021-05-13T14:03:36Z
dc.date.issued2021-05
dc.description.abstractOften, we view feelings as squishy—personal and subjective, therefore private and apolitical. Even within ourselves, our feelings can often seem reflexive and out of our own control. This thesis represents my attempt to hold these squishy feelings and look at them up close, from different angles. In doing so, I hope to see how our affects may not only be personal to ourselves, but also highly communal, performative, and regulated by and within communities. Affects—our feelings, emotions, and moods—are a matter of political and intellectual concern. Different political aims often mobilize our affects and manipulate them to conform to certain desirable shapes. Thus, paying attention to affects—the ways they are evoked, politicized, and ascribed (un)desirability—may help us stay close to our own needs and the needs of our community.
dc.format.extent77 pp
dc.identifier.citationLi-Wang, Jennifer. "Affection: Essays on Affect, Empathy, and the Politics of Feeling." Undergraduate thesis, Rice University, 2021. https://doi.org/10.25611/cmfb-aa79.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/cmfb-aa79
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/110512
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRice University
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dc.rights.uriThis item is shared under a Creative Commons License- Attribution (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
dc.subjectAffects
dc.subjectAffect Theory
dc.subjectLiterary Studies
dc.subjectCritical Theory
dc.subjectFeminist Theory
dc.titleAffection: Essays on Affect, Empathy, and the Politics of Feeling
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.departmentEnglish
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanities
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelUndergraduate
thesis.degree.nameBachelor of Arts
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