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Vedal, Lauren Irene.

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National whiteness/national witness: Traumatic narratives by minorities in the United States and Canada, 1980--2000.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	National whiteness/national witness: Traumatic narratives by minorities in the United States and Canada, 1980--2000./
Author:	Vedal, Lauren Irene.
Description:	309 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: A, page: 0191.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-01A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3437025
ISBN:	9781124363660

National whiteness/national witness: Traumatic narratives by minorities in the United States and Canada, 1980--2000.
Vedal, Lauren Irene.

National whiteness/national witness: Traumatic narratives by minorities in the United States and Canada, 1980--2000. - 309 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: A, page: 0191.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2010.

This dissertation examines how whiteness functions in U.S. and Canadian national contexts in a period of backlash (1980--2000), from the literary perspective of marginalized peoples. Whiteness refers not simply to white racial identity, but to the beliefs that both privilege white racial identity and render that privilege invisible, leading inevitably to injustice of all kinds. This dissertation argues that whiteness mobilizes ideas of victimhood and incorporates other axes of difference, such as national identity, in order to undermine challenges to its supremacy. While studies of whiteness often focus on unearthing the invisible privileges that constitute white identity, this dissertation investigates the ways in which whiteness is also constituted by trauma, loss and victimhood. The meanings of trauma and victimhood are mediated by national identity, producing nationally specific expressions of whiteness. Increasingly, whiteness operates as a defining feature of the "global North." While it is a transnational phenomenon, it finds expression through national narratives and identities. In an era of globalization, whiteness, like the nation-state, retains its relevance through the maintenance of inequality, difference, and borders. For example, white Canadians tend to define themselves as the "good whites," against the racist whites of the United States.

ISBN: 9781124363660Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

National whiteness/national witness: Traumatic narratives by minorities in the United States and Canada, 1980--2000.
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