Gayle Wald

Crossing the Line

Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Deeply engaging, well-researched, and effective, "Crossing the Line" is a fine multidisciplinary study not only of passing narratives but of the social, political, and economic struggles that they negotiate in racial terms."-- Priscilla Wald, author of "Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780822325154
• ISBN-10: 0822325152
• Artikelnr.: 21721058

Autorenporträt

Gayle Wald is Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation
> 1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing
Narratives
> 2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues
3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation,
circa 1949
> 4. “I’m Through with Passing”: Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular
Literary Culture
5. “A Most Disagreeable Mirror”: Reflections on White Identity in Black
Like Me
Epilogue: Passing, “Color Blindness,” and Contemporary Discourses of Race
and Identity
Notes
Bibliography
Index