Samina Najmi & Rajini Srikanth 
White Women in Racialized Spaces 
Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth

Part I: Brown on White

2. South Asians and the Complex Interstices of Whiteness: Negotiating Public Sentiment in the United States and Britain
Susan Koshy

3. Whiteness and Soap-Opera Justice: Comparing the Louise Woodward and Manjit Basuta Cases
Monali Sheth

4. Mother Teresa as the Mirror of Bourgeois Guilt
Vijay Prashad

Part II: White American Womanhood

5. Ventriloquism in the Captivity Narrative: White Women Challenge European American Patriarchy
Rajini Srikanth

6. ‘Those Indians Are Great Thieves, I Suppose?’: Historicizing the White Woman in The Squatter and the Don
Peter A. Chvany

7. ‘Let Me Play Desdemona’: White Heroines and Interracial Desire in Louisa May Alcott’s ‘My Contraband’ and ‘M.L.’
Diana R. Paulin

8. ‘Getting in Touch with the True South’: Pet Negroes, White Crackers, and Racial Staging in
Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee
Delia Caparoso Konzett

9. Prison, Perversion, and Pimps: The White Temptress in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Iceberg Slim’s Pimp
Terri Hume Oliver

10. Subject Positions in Elizabeth Bishop’s Representations of Whiteness and the ‘Other’
Zhou Xiaojing

Part III: The Global ‘Memsahib’

11. How Can a White Woman Love a Black Woman? The Anglo-Boer War and Possibilities of Desire
Paula M. Krebs

12. From Betrayal to Inclusion: The Work of the White Woman’s Gaze in Claire Denis’s Chocolat
Céline Philibert

13. The Imperial Feminine: Victorian Women Travellers in Egypt
Melissa Lee Miller

14. Chinese Coolies, Hidden Perfume, and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Anna Leonowens’s The Romance of the Harem
Susan Morgan

About the Contributors

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