Sinead Moynihan

Passing into the present

Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780719082290
• ISBN-10: 0719082293
• Artikelnr.: 29920115

Autorenporträt

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