Transnational Whiteness Matters
- Editors:
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- Publisher:
- 2008
Summary
The collection contributes to transnational whiteness debates through theoretically informed readings of historical and contemporary texts by established and emerging scholars in the field of critical whiteness studies. From a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, the book traces continuity and change in the cultural production of white virtue within texts, from the proud colonial moment through to neoliberalism and the global war on terror in the twenty-first century. Read together, these chapters convey a complex understanding of how transnational whiteness travels and manifests itself within different political and cultural contexts. Some chapters address political, legal and constitutional aspects of whiteness while others explore media representations and popular cultural texts and practices. The book also contains valuable historical studies documenting how whiteness is insinuated within the texts produced, circulated and reproduced in specific cultural and national locations.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2008
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-2557-1
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-3221-0
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 204
- Product type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgements No access
- Introduction: Virtue and Transnational Whiteness No access
- Chapter One. Redeeming Self: The Business of Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South African Writing No access
- Chapter Two. Managing Resistance: Whiteness and the Storytellers of Indigenous Protest in Australia No access
- Chapter Three. Picturing Whiteness: The Events of 9/11 in Children's Storybooks No access
- Chapter Four. Consuming Pathologies: The Australian against Indigenous Sovereignties No access
- Chapter Five. Writing off Treaties: White Possession in the United States Critical Whiteness Studies Literature No access
- Chapter Six. White Man's Burden: Whiteness in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and Rabidranath Tagore's Gora No access
- Chapter Seven. Fictions and Truths of Racial Production in Hannah Crafts' The Bondwoman's Narrative No access
- Chapter Eight. Constructing Whiteness in the Australian Adventure Story, 1875–1920 No access
- Chapter Nine. Laura Bush and Dan Brown: Whiteness, Feminism, and the Politics of Vulnerability No access
- Chapter Ten. Marking the White Body: Tattooing in the White Colonial Literary Imagination No access
- Bibliography No access Pages 181 - 196
- Index No access Pages 197 - 200
- About the Contributors No access Pages 201 - 204





