White Women in Racialized Spaces : Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature,9780791454770

White Women in Racialized Spaces : Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature

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ISBN13: 9780791454770
ISBN10: 0791454770
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-08-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Elizabeth Ammons
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
1(28)
Samina Najmi
Rajini Srikanth
Part I: Brown on White
South Asians and the Complex Interstices of Whiteness: Negotiating Public Sentiment in the United States and Britain
29(22)
Susan Koshy
Whiteness and Soap-Opera Justice: Comparing the Louise Woodward and Manjit Basuta Cases
51(16)
Monali Sheth
Mother Teresa as the Mirror of Bourgeois Guilt
67(18)
Vijay Prashad
Part II: White American Womanhood
Ventriloquism in the Captivity Narrative: White Women Challenge European American Patriarchy
85(20)
Rajini Srikanth
``Those Indians Are Great Thieves, I Suppose?'': Historicizing the White Woman in The Squatter and the Don
105(14)
Peter A. Chvany
``Let Me Play Desdemona'': White Heroines and Interracial Desire in Louisa May Alcott's ``My Contraband'' and ``M.L.''
119(12)
Diana R. Paulin
``Getting in Touch with the True South'': Pet Negroes, White Crackers, and Racial Staging in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee
131(16)
Delia Caparoso Konzett
Prison, Perversion, and Pimps: The White Temptress in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Iceberg Slim's Pimp
147(20)
Terri Hume Oliver
Subject Position in Elizabeth Bishop's Representations of Whiteness and the ``Other''
167(26)
Zhou Xiaojing
Part III: The Global ``Memsahib''
How Can a White Woman Love a Black Woman?: The Anglo-Boer War and Possibilities of Desire
193(14)
Paula M. Krebs
From Betrayal to Inclusion: The Work of the White Woman's Gaze in Claire Denis's Chocolat
207(20)
Celine Philibert
The Imperial Feminine: Victorian Women Travellers in Egypt
227(16)
Melissa Lee Miller
Chinese Coolies, Hidden Perfume, and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Anna Leonowens's The Romance of the Harem
243(14)
Susan Morgan
About the Contributors 257(4)
Index 261

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