Transnational Whiteness Matters

Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Maryrose Casey, Fiona Nicoll

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2008
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216247661
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Political Philosophy
• Index: Social Sciences

The 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, the book traces continuity and change in the cultural production of white virtue within texts, from the proud colonial moment through to neoliberalism and the global war on terror in the twenty-first century. Read together, these chapters convey a complex understanding of how transnational whiteness travels and manifests itself within different political and cultural contexts.

Some chapters address political, legal and constitutional aspects of whiteness while others explore media representations and popular cultural texts and practices. The book also contains valuable historical studies documenting how whiteness is insinuated within the texts produced, circulated and reproduced in specific cultural and national locations.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Virtue and Transnational Whiteness
• Part I. Whiteness in National Imaginaries
• Chapter One. Redeeming Self: The Business of Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South African Writing
• Chapter Two. Managing Resistance: Whiteness and the Storytellers of Indigenous Protest in Australia
• Chapter Three. Picturing Whiteness: The Events of 9/11 in Children's Storybooks
• Chapter Four. Consuming Pathologies: The Australian against Indigenous Sovereignties
• Chapter Five. Writing off Treaties: White Possession in the United States Critical Whiteness Studies Literature
• Part II. Gendering Whiteness
• Chapter Six. White Man's Burden: Whiteness in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and Rabidranath Tagore's Gora
• Chapter Seven. Fictions and Truths of Racial Production in Hannah Crafts' The Bondwoman's Narrative
• Chapter Eight. Constructing Whiteness in the Australian Adventure Story, 1875–1920
• Chapter Nine. Laura Bush and Dan Brown: Whiteness, Feminism, and the Politics of Vulnerability
• Chapter Ten. Marking the White Body: Tattooing in the White Colonial Literary Imagination
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Contributors