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White women in racialized spaces : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:	Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores:	Najmi, Samina, Srikanth, Rajini
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Colección:	SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
Temas:	American literature > History and criticism. Women, White, in literature. Women and literature > United States. Ethics in literature. Race in literature. Women, White. Blanches dans la littérature. Femmes et littérature > États-Unis. Morale dans la littérature. Race dans la littérature. Blanches. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. American literature Ethics in literature Race in literature Women and literature Women, White Women, White, in literature United States Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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 Sentimentin 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 inLouisa 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 Gazein Claire Denis's Chocolat
13. The Imperial Feminine: Victorian Women Travellers in Egypt
14. Chinese Coolies, Hidden Perfume, and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Anna Leonowens's: The Romance of the Harem
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White women in racialized spaces : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature /

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