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BABB, VALERIE Whiteness Visible - the Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature and Culture
USA: New York University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. 5-3/4 x 8-1/2 x 1 " 0814713025 1998 Hardcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 227 pages ... bibliography & index ... includes : " Toward a Philosophy of Whiteness ... Crafting Whiteness in Early America ... Hiding Whiteness in Plain Sight ... Naming the Nameless for the Greater Good ... " ... Author Valerie Babb is Professor of English at Georgetown University, where she teaches courses in American literature, Women's studies, and American studies ... She has been a faculty member of the Bread Loaf school of English at Middlebury College , and has written extensively on African - American literature and culture ... as well as co-producer of Black Georgetown Remembered, a video documentary ... Her analysis with this fascinating book ' begins by surveying the construction of whiteness in early American writings and material culture, and continues through literature of the 19th century, surveying whiteness in texts commonly acknowledged as standards in U.S. literature: The Last of the Mohicans and Moby Dick. She then investigates representations of whiteness in a variety of late- 19th and early- 20th century cultural creations, among them immigrant autobiographies, World's Fair expositions, and etiquette books. Babb convincingly illustrates the ways in which a variety of cultural creations combine to help shape the concept of universal whiteness' ... " Whiteness Visible - The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature and Culture " ... by Valerie Babb ... published by New York University Press ... 1998 Hardcover ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ***. New .
Offered for US$ 49.95 by: Cavendish International Books & Music - Book number: 4632
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