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UNINA9910972228903321 |
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Titolo |
White women in racialized spaces : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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NajmiSamina |
SrikanthRajini |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - History and criticism |
Women, White, in literature |
Women and literature - United States |
Ethics in literature |
Race in literature |
Women, White |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""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: |
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