Postcolonial Whiteness
A Critical Reader on Race and Empire
- 271 pages
- English
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Postcolonial Whiteness
A Critical Reader on Race and Empire
About this book
Explores the undertheorized convergence of postcoloniality and whiteness.
Postcolonial Whiteness examines the interrelations between whiteness and the history of European colonialism, as well as the status of whiteness in the contemporary postcolonial world. It addresses two fundamental questions: What happens to whiteness after empire, and to what extent do white cultural norms or imperatives remain embedded in the postcolonial or postindependence state as a part-acknowledged or not-of the colonial legacy? Presenting a wide range of critical and theoretical responses, the contributors explore these questions by focusing on such diverse topics as the legacy of Princess Diana; queer self-expression; the changing situation of Gypsy, or Romani, minorities in Eastern Europe; literature, including Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Caryl Phillips's Cambridge, and Gothic impact on the literature of Australia; reconstruction of white South African social identity; cross-cultural discussions of mental illness; Freud's case history of the Wolfman; and Australia's national anthems.
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Table of contents
- Postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. INTRODUCTION: WHITENESS AFTER EMPIRE
- 2. THE BODY OF THE PRINCESS
- 3. LAVENDER AIN’T WHITE: EMERGING QUEER SELF-EXPRESSION IN ITS BROADER CONTEXT
- 4. WHITENESS IN POST-SOCIALIST EASTERN EUROPE: THE TIME OF THE GYPSIES, THE END OF RACE
- 5. VAMPIRIC DECOLONIZATION: FANON, “TERRORISM,” AND MUDROOROO’S VAMPIRE TRILOGY
- 6. “WHITE TALK”: WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF DIASPORIC WHITENESS
- 7. THE COLOR OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
- 8. THE GAZE OF THE WHITE WOLF: PSYCHOANALYSIS, WHITENESS, AND COLONIAL TRAUMA
- 9. “MOTLEY’S THE ONLY WEAR:” HYBRIDITY, HOMELANDS, AND CONRAD’S HARLEQUIN
- 10. HYMNS FOR AND FROM WHITE AUSTRALIA
- 11. THE TIMES OF WHITENESS; OR, RACE BETWEEN THE POSTMODERN AND THE POSTCOLONIAL
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX