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.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l’auteur
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.
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