Postcolonial Whiteness
A Critical Reader on Race and Empire
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
271 pages
978-0-7914-8372-5 (ISBN)
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Explores the undertheorized convergence of postcoloniality and whiteness.
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State University of New York Press
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Alfred J. López is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi and the author of Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Whiteness after Empire
Alfred J. Lopez
2. The Body of the Princess
Diane Roberts
3. Lavender Ain't White: Emerging Queer Self-Expression in its Broader Context
John C. Hawley
4. Whiteness in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: The Time of the Gypsies, The End of Race
Aniko Imre
5. Vampiric Decolonization: Fanon, "Terrorism," and Mudrooroo's Vampire Trilogy
Gerry Turcotte
6. "White Talk": White South Africans and the Management of Diasporic Whiteness
Melissa Steyn
7. The Color of Schizophrenia
Cheryl Temple Herr
8. The Gaze of the White Wolf: Psychoanalysis, Whiteness, and Colonial Trauma
Alfred J. Lopez
9. "Motley's the Only Wear": Hybridity, Homelands, and Conrad's Harlequin
Frances B. Singh
10. Hymns for and from White Australia
Christopher Kelen
11. The Times of Whiteness; or, Race between the Postmodern and the Postcolonial
Ryan S. Trimm
List of Contributors
Index
1. Introduction: Whiteness after Empire
Alfred J. Lopez
2. The Body of the Princess
Diane Roberts
3. Lavender Ain't White: Emerging Queer Self-Expression in its Broader Context
John C. Hawley
4. Whiteness in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: The Time of the Gypsies, The End of Race
Aniko Imre
5. Vampiric Decolonization: Fanon, "Terrorism," and Mudrooroo's Vampire Trilogy
Gerry Turcotte
6. "White Talk": White South Africans and the Management of Diasporic Whiteness
Melissa Steyn
7. The Color of Schizophrenia
Cheryl Temple Herr
8. The Gaze of the White Wolf: Psychoanalysis, Whiteness, and Colonial Trauma
Alfred J. Lopez
9. "Motley's the Only Wear": Hybridity, Homelands, and Conrad's Harlequin
Frances B. Singh
10. Hymns for and from White Australia
Christopher Kelen
11. The Times of Whiteness; or, Race between the Postmodern and the Postcolonial
Ryan S. Trimm
List of Contributors
Index
