UGLY FEELINGS

Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature - with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race - but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature - with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race - but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism.