1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008103760403321

Autore

Dixon, John R.

Titolo

Thermodynamics I : an introduction to energy / J. R. Dixon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Englowood Cliffs : Prentice Hall, 1975

ISBN

0-13-914887-6

Edizione

[1.ed.]

Disciplina

536.7

Locazione

DETEC

Collocazione

00 A2596

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972228903321

Titolo

White women in racialized spaces : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

9780791488089

079148808X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

Altri autori (Persone)

NajmiSamina

SrikanthRajini

Disciplina

810.9/352042

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

Women, White, in literature

Women and literature - United States

Ethics in literature

Race in literature

Women, White

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the unique relationship between white women and racial Others in a wide variety of literary works.