Transnational Whiteness Matters

by Moreton-Robinson, Aileen; Casey, Maryrose; Nicoll, Fiona

• ISBN13: 9780739125571
• ISBN10: 0739125575
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

"This 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, Transnational Whiteness Matters traces continuity and change in the cultural production of white virtue within texts, from the proud colonial moment to neoliberalism and the global war on terror in the twenty-first century. Read together, these essays convey a complex understanding of how transnational whiteness travels and manifests itself within different political and cultural contexts."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: Virtue and Transnational Whiteness	p. ix
Whiteness in National Imaginaries
Redeeming Self: The Business of Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South African Writing	p. 3
Managing Resistance: Whiteness and the Storytellers of Indigenous Protest in Australia	p. 19
Picturing Whiteness: The Events of 9/11 in Children's Storybooks	p. 39
Consuming Pathologies: The Australian against Indigenous Sovereignties	p. 57
Writing off Treaties: White Possession in the United States Critical Whiteness Studies Literature	p. 81
Gendering Whiteness
White Man's Burden: Whiteness in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and Rabindranath Tagore's Gora	p. 99
Fictions and Truths of Racial Production in Hannah Crafts' The Bondwoman's Narrative	p. 117
Constructing Whiteness in the Australian Adventure Story, 1875-1920	p. 133
Laura Bush and Dan Brown: Whiteness, Feminism and the Politics of Vulnerability	p. 147
Marking the White Body: Tattooing in the White Colonial Literary Imagination	p. 165
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 197
About the Contributors	p. 201
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