White women in racialized spaces : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth.
2002
PS173.W46 W48 2002eb
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Title
White women in racialized spaces : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth.
ISBN
9780791488089 (electronic bk.)
079148808X (electronic bk.)
9780791454787 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0791454789 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780791454770
0791454770 (alk. paper)
0791454789 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
079148808X (electronic bk.)
9780791454787 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0791454789 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780791454770
0791454770 (alk. paper)
0791454789 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)
Call Number
PS173.W46 W48 2002eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)811403765
Summary
Explores the unique relationship between white women and racial Others in a wide variety of literary works.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
WHITE WOMEN IN RACIALIZED SPACES: Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature
Contents
Foreword: ELIZABETH AMMONS
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: SAMINA NAJMI AND RAJINI SRIKANTH
2. South Asians and the Complex Interstices of Whiteness: Negotiating Public Sentimentin the United States and Britain
3. Whiteness and Soap-Opera Justice: Comparing the Louise Woodwardand Manjit Basuta Cases
4. Mother Teresa as the Mirror of Bourgeois Guilt
5. Ventriloquism in the Captivity Narrative: White Women Challenge European American Patriarchy.
6. "Those Indians Are Great Thieves, I Suppose?": Historicizing the White Woman in The Squatter and the Don
7. "Let Me Play Desdemona": White Heroines and Interracial Desire inLouisa May Alcott's "My Contraband" and "M.L."
8. "Getting in Touch with the True South": Pet Negroes, White Crackers, and Racial Staging in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee
9. Prison, Perversion, and Pimps: The White Temptress in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Iceberg Slim's Pimp
10. Subject Positions in Elizabeth Bishop's Representations of Whiteness and the "Other."
11. How Can a White Woman Love a Black Woman?: The Anglo-Boer War and Possibilities of Desire
12. From Betrayal to Inclusion: The Work of the White Woman's Gazein Claire Denis's Chocolat
13. The Imperial Feminine: Victorian Women Travellers in Egypt
14. Chinese Coolies, Hidden Perfume, and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Anna Leonowens's: The Romance of the Harem
About the Contributors
Index of Names
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Contents
Foreword: ELIZABETH AMMONS
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: SAMINA NAJMI AND RAJINI SRIKANTH
2. South Asians and the Complex Interstices of Whiteness: Negotiating Public Sentimentin the United States and Britain
3. Whiteness and Soap-Opera Justice: Comparing the Louise Woodwardand Manjit Basuta Cases
4. Mother Teresa as the Mirror of Bourgeois Guilt
5. Ventriloquism in the Captivity Narrative: White Women Challenge European American Patriarchy.
6. "Those Indians Are Great Thieves, I Suppose?": Historicizing the White Woman in The Squatter and the Don
7. "Let Me Play Desdemona": White Heroines and Interracial Desire inLouisa May Alcott's "My Contraband" and "M.L."
8. "Getting in Touch with the True South": Pet Negroes, White Crackers, and Racial Staging in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee
9. Prison, Perversion, and Pimps: The White Temptress in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Iceberg Slim's Pimp
10. Subject Positions in Elizabeth Bishop's Representations of Whiteness and the "Other."
11. How Can a White Woman Love a Black Woman?: The Anglo-Boer War and Possibilities of Desire
12. From Betrayal to Inclusion: The Work of the White Woman's Gazein Claire Denis's Chocolat
13. The Imperial Feminine: Victorian Women Travellers in Egypt
14. Chinese Coolies, Hidden Perfume, and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Anna Leonowens's: The Romance of the Harem
About the Contributors
Index of Names
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
V
W
Z
Index of Terms
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L.
M
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Series
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
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Print version: White women in racialized spaces. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002
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