This is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990's in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.
This is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990's in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.
Sinéad Moynihan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American Studies at the University of Nottingham
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: 'Passing' into the present: passing narratives then and now 2. Living parchments, human documents: passing, racial identity and the literary marketplace 3. The way of the cross(-dresser): Catholicism, gender and race in two novels by Louise Erdrich 4. (W)Rites-of-passing: shifting racial and gender identities in Caucasia and Middlesex 5. Bodies / texts: passing and writing in The White Boy Shuffle and The Human Stain 6. Conclusion: 'Passing' fads?: recent controversies of authenticity and authorship Bibliography Index
1. Introduction: 'Passing' into the present: passing narratives then and now 2. Living parchments, human documents: passing, racial identity and the literary marketplace 3. The way of the cross(-dresser): Catholicism, gender and race in two novels by Louise Erdrich 4. (W)Rites-of-passing: shifting racial and gender identities in Caucasia and Middlesex 5. Bodies / texts: passing and writing in The White Boy Shuffle and The Human Stain 6. Conclusion: 'Passing' fads?: recent controversies of authenticity and authorship Bibliography Index
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