White women in racialized spaces : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/352042 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - History and criticism |
| Women, White, in literature | |
| Women and literature - United States | |
| Ethics in literature | |
| Race in literature | |
| Women, White | |
| Altri autori: |
NajmiSamina
SrikanthRajini
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | White women in racialized spaces |
| ISBN: | 9780791488089 |
| 079148808X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910972228903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory