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1 online resource |
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"This volume seeks to theorize and explore the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why--in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment--is passing still of such literary and cultural interest? To answer this question, chapters in this book focus on a range of passing practices, performances and texts that are part of the emerging genre of what we call neo-passing narratives. Neo-passing narratives are contemporary narratives that depict someone being taken for an identity other than what s/he is considered really to be. That these texts are written, constructed, or produced at a time when passing should have passed reveals that the questions passing raises--questions about how identity is performed and contested in relation to social norms--are just as relevant now as they were at the turn of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : The Neo-Passing Narrative -- Appendix to the Introduction. Neo-Passing Narratives : Teaching and Scholarly Resources -- New Histories. Introduction : Passing at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century ; Why Passing Is (Still) Not Passé after More Than 250 Years : Sources from the Past and Present ; Passing for Postracial : Colorblind Reading Practices of Zombies, Sheriffs, and Slaveholders ; Adam Mansbach's Postracial Imaginary in Angry Black White Boy ; Black President Bush : The Racial and Gender Politics behind Dave Chappelle's Presidential Drag ; Seeing Race in Comics : Passing, Witness, and the Spectacle of Racial Violence in Johnson and Pleece's Incognegro -- New Identities. Introduction : Passing at the Intersections ; Passing Truths : Identity-Immersion Journalism and the Experience of Authenticity ; Passing for Tan : Snooki and the Grotesque Reality of Ethnicity ; The Pass of Least Resistance : Sexual Orientation and Race in ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" ; Neo-Passing and Dissociative Identities as Affective Strategies in Frankie and Alice ; "A New Type of Human Being" : Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity as Perpetual Passing in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex -- Afterword : Why Neo Now?. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Passing (Identity) in literature.
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Passing (Identity) in literature. |
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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African Americans -- Race identity. |
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Race awareness -- United States.
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Race awareness. |
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United States. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Godfrey, Mollie, 1979- editor.
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Young, Vershawn Ashanti, editor.
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Wald, Gayle, 1965- writer of foreword.
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Elam, Michele, writer of afterword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Neo-passing Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018] 9780252041587 (hardcover : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2017057076 |
| ISBN |
9780252050244 epub |
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025205024X |
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9780252041587 hardcover : acid-free paper |
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9780252083235 softcover : acid-free paper |
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0252041585 |
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0252083237 |
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