Sinead Moynihan

Passing into the present (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.

The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship.

Aimed at students and researchers, it promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847797704
• Artikelnr.: 43078629

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