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White women in racialized spaces : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
- SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
- SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Women, White, in literature.
- Women and literature--United States.
- Women and literature.
- Ethics in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Women, White.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the unique relationship between white women and racial Others in a wide variety of literary works.
- Contents:
- ""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 Sentiment in 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 in Louisa 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 Gaze in Claire Denis's Chocolat""; ""13. The Imperial Feminine: Victorian Women Travelers 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""; " ""Index of Terms""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780791488089
- 079148808X
- OCLC:
- 811403765
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