Women & Others Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Empire

by Daileader, Celia R.; Johnson, Rhoda; Shabazz, Amilcar

• ISBN13: 9780312296025
• ISBN10: 0312296029
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The book comprises a lively and wide-ranging discussion of the intersecting discourses of race, gender, and empire in literature, history, and contemporary culture generally.

Author Biography

Celia R. Daileader is Professor of English at Florida State University. Rhoda E. Johnson is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and African American Studies at The University of Alabama. Amilcar Shabazz is Associate Professor of History and Director of the American Studies Program at Oklahoma State University. 

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Notes on the Contributors	p. xv
Who Is the Other Woman? An Introduction	p. 1
Literatures
Miscegenation as Consolation in George Colman's Inkle and Yarico	p. 25
Fear of Family, Fear of Self: Black Southern "Othering" in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits	p. 45
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Same-Sex Relations in the Fiction of Gloria Naylor	p. 67
Postmodernism, Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, and the Construction of the Black/Woman of Color as Primal Other	p. 83
Histories
The Memsahib Myth: Englishwomen in Colonial India	p. 107
Race, Gender, and Leadership: (En)Countering Discourses that Devalue African American Women as Leaders	p. 129
Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the American Christian Right	p. 147
The Future of Feminism: What Other Way to Speak?	p. 173
List of Abbreviations	p. 197
Index	p. 199
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