{"product_id":"diana-and-beyond-9780252080302","title":"Diana and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eCelebrity Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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, \u003ci\u003eDiana and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e is as compelling as it is insightful.\"--\u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Raka Shome's \u003ci\u003eDiana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture\u003c\/i\u003e will take the field far in understanding how to cultivate a transnational attentiveness. The dazzling \u003ci\u003eDiana and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"--\u003ci\u003eQuarterly Journal of Speech\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoverTitleContentsAcknowledgments1. 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","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400497504599,"sku":"9780252080302","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252080302.jpg?v=1730470826","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/diana-and-beyond-9780252080302","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}