Title: Transnational whiteness matters /
Authors: Moreton-Robinson, Aileen; Casey, Maryrose; Nicoll, Fiona Jean
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2008
Subjects: White people in literature; Literature, Modern History and criticism
Abstract: "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.
Contents: Introduction: virtue and transnational whiteness / Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Maryrose Casey, and Fiona Nicoll -- Redeeming self: the business of whiteness in post-apartheid South African writing / Tony Simoes da Silva -- Managing resistance: whiteness and the storytellers of indigenous protest in Australia / Maryrose Casey -- Picturing whiteness: the events of 9/11 in children's storybooks / Jo Lampert -- Consuming pathologies: The Australian against indigenous sovereignties / Fiona Nicoll -- Writing off treaties: white possession in the United States critical whiteness studies literature / Aileen Moreton-Robinson -- White man's burden: whiteness in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and Rabindranath Tagore's Gora / Urbashi Barat -- Fictions and truths of racial production in Hannah Crafts' The bondswoman's narrative / Suzanne Lynch -- Construction whiteness in the Australian adventure story, 1875-1920 / Martin Crotty -- Laura Bush and Dan Brown: whiteness, feminism and the politics of vulnerability / Tanya Serisier -- Marking the white body: tattooing in the white colonial literary imagination / Annie Werner.