Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: Virtue and Transnational Whiteness Aileen Moreton-Robinson Maryrose Casey Fiona Nicoll ix
Part I Whiteness in National Imaginaries
1 Redeeming Self: The Business of Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South African Writing Tony Simoes da Silva 3
2 Managing Resistance: Whiteness and the Storytellers of Indigenous Protest in Australia Maryrose Casey 19
3 Picturing Whiteness: The Events of 9/11 in Children's Storybooks Jo Lampert 39
4 Consuming Pathologies: The Australian against Indigenous Sovereignties Fiona Nicoll 57
5 Writing off Treaties: White Possession in the United States Critical Whiteness Studies Literature Aileen Moreton-Robinson 81
Part II Gendering Whiteness
6 White Man's Burden: Whiteness in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and Rabindranath Tagore's Gora Urbashi Barat 99
7 Fictions and Truths of Racial Production in Hannah Crafts' The Bondwoman's Narrative Suzanne Lynch 117
8 Constructing Whiteness in the Australian Adventure Story, 1875-1920 Martin Crotty 133
9 Laura Bush and Dan Brown: Whiteness, Feminism and the Politics of Vulnerability Tanya Serisier 147
10 Marking the White Body: Tattooing in the White Colonial Literary Imagination Annie Werner 165
Bibliography 181
Index 197
About the Contributors 201
