Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature

In Whiteness Visible, Valerie Babb investigates the history, values, rituals, and shared consciousness that created whiteness in...
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Author: Valerie M. Babb
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Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature by Babb, Valerie M.

Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature

$107.60

Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature

$107.60
Author: Valerie M. Babb
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In Whiteness Visible, Valerie Babb investigates the history, values, rituals, and shared consciousness that created whiteness in the United States, as well as the representations that sustain its influence on both cultural and literary vision. Babb formulates an understanding of whiteness by tracing its literary and cultural evolution, enlisting diverse sources from, among others, the Han dynasty, Aristotle's Politica, and excerpts from the recollections of white indentured servants.
Babb's textual analysis begins by surveying the construction of whiteness in early American writings and material culture, and continues through literature of the nineteenth 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- nineteenth and early-twentieth 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 boldly claims that we can only understand the full significance of race and the ways in which it influences cultural understanding and cultural creation in the United States when we interrogate whiteness and make it visible.



Author: Valerie M. Babb
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 09/01/1998
Pages: 227
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.51w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780814713129

About the Author
Babb, Valerie M.: - Valerie Babb is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University.

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