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881321
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White women in racialized spaces : : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature /\ edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, ©2002.
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
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1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)
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0791454789
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0791454770
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0791454789
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9780791454770
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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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.
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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 -- About the Contributors -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Index of Terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L.
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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."
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M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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American literature-- History and criticism.
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Ethics in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Women and literature-- United States.
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Women, White, in literature.
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Women, White.
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American literature.
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Ethics in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Race in literature.
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Women and literature.
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Women, White, in literature.
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Women, White.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/352042
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| LC Classification
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PS173.W46W48 2002eb
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| Added Entry
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Najmi, Samina.
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Srikanth, Rajini.
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