03770nam 2200673Ia 450 991078556360332120230607231104.00-7914-8808-X(CKB)2670000000233663(EBL)3407935(SSID)ssj0000714144(PQKBManifestationID)12349146(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000714144(PQKBWorkID)10664606(PQKB)11017601(MiAaPQ)EBC3407935(Au-PeEL)EBL3407935(CaPaEBR)ebr10587133(OCoLC)811403765(EXLCZ)99267000000023366320011101d2002 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWhite women in racialized spaces[electronic resource] imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature /edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini SrikanthAlbany State University of New York Pressc20021 online resource (287 p.)SUNY series in feminist criticism and theoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-7914-5477-0 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.""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""SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and TheoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticismWomen, White, in literatureWomen and literatureUnited StatesEthics in literatureRace in literatureWomen, WhiteAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Women, White, in literature.Women and literatureEthics in literature.Race in literature.Women, White.810.9/352042Najmi Samina1510641Srikanth Rajini1484443MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785563603321White women in racialized spaces3743441UNINA