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Book SynopsisWhat narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the millennium? This book deals with these questions.
Trade Review"Shome presents critical arguments that challenge the seemingly innocuous tenants of celebrity culture by examining the strategies adopted by privileged upper-class white women to rejuvenate their identities, largely by extracting culture, resources and people from the developing world, and consequently are implicated in the production of neo-colonial conditions."--
Celebrity Studies "The clarity of her writing and her engaging media examples would make this an excellent text for students and seasoned scholars alike. Packaging analytical rigor alongside an exciting array of examples,
Diana and Beyond is as compelling as it is insightful."--
European Journal of Cultural Studies "Raka Shome's
Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture will take the field far in understanding how to cultivate a transnational attentiveness. The dazzling
Diana and Beyond follows Lady Di as she twists and turns, appears stable, transforms, and the moves again across various global and national registers. Shome deftly demonstrates how to study something as seemingly stable as national identity without stabilizing or circumscribing its constituents."--
Quarterly Journal of SpeechTable of ContentsCoverTitleContentsAcknowledgments1. White Femininity in the Nation, the Nation in White Femininity2. Racialized Maternalisms: White Motherhood and National Modernity3. Fashioning the Nation: The Citizenly Body, Multiculturalism, and Transnational Designs4. "Global Motherhood": The Transnational Intimacies of White Femininity5. White Femininity and Transnational Masculinit(ies): Design and the "Muslim Man"6. Cosmopolitan Healing: The Spiritual Fix of White FemininityAfterwordNotesReferencesIndex
