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 1990â 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: 29. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781526156013
• ISBN-10: 1526156016
• Artikelnr.: 59912511

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