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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Samina Najmi; Rajini Srikanth |
ISBN: | 0791454770 9780791454770 0791454789 9780791454787 |
OCLC Number: | 48397410 |
Description: | xi, 272 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Foreword / Elizabeth Ammons -- Introduction / Samina Najmi, Rajini Srikanth -- Brown on White -- South Asians and the Complex Interstices of Whiteness: Negotiating Public Sentiment in the United States and Britain / Susan Koshy -- Whiteness and Soap-Opera Justice: Comparing the Louise Woodward and Manjit Basuta Cases / Monali Sheth -- Mother Teresa as the Mirror of Bourgeois Guilt / Vijay Prashad -- White American Womanhood -- Ventriloquism in the Captivity Narrative: White Women Challenge European American Patriarchy / Rajini Srikanth -- "Those Indians Are Great Thieves, I Suppose?": Historicizing the White Woman in The Squatter and the Don / Peter A. Chvany -- "Let Me Play Desdemona": White Heroines and Interracial Desire in Louisa May Alcott's "My Contraband" and "M.L." / 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 / Delia Caparoso Konzett -- Prison, Perversion, and Pimps: The White Temptress in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Iceberg Slim's Pimp / Terri Hume Oliver -- Subject Positions in Elizabeth Bishop's Representations of Whiteness and the "Other" / Zhou Xiaojing -- The Global "Memsahib" -- How Can a White Woman Love a Black Woman?: The Anglo-Boer War and Possibilities of Desire / Paula M. Krebs -- From Betrayal to Inclusion: The Work of the White Woman's Gaze in Claire Denis's Chocolat / Celine Philibert -- The Imperial Feminine: Victorian Women Travellers in Egypt / Melissa Lee Miller. |
Series Title: | SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory. |
Responsibility: | edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth. |
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