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Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow /

"This volume seeks to theorize and explore the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why--in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment--is passing still of such literary and cultural interest? To answer this question...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Godfrey, Mollie, 1979- (Editor ), Young, Vershawn Ashanti (Editor ), Wald, Gayle, 1965- (writer of foreword.), Elam, Michele (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This volume seeks to theorize and explore the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why--in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment--is passing still of such literary and cultural interest? To answer this question, chapters in this book focus on a range of passing practices, performances and texts that are part of the emerging genre of what we call neo-passing narratives. Neo-passing narratives are contemporary narratives that depict someone being taken for an identity other than what s/he is considered really to be. That these texts are written, constructed, or produced at a time when passing should have passed reveals that the questions passing raises--questions about how identity is performed and contested in relation to social norms--are just as relevant now as they were at the turn of the twentieth century"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780252050244
025205024X