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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The Neo-Passing Narrative
- Appendix to the Introduction. Neo-Passing Narratives : Teaching and Scholarly Resources
- New Histories. Introduction : Passing at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century ; Why Passing Is (Still) Not Passe after More Than 250 Years : Sources from the Past and Present ; Passing for Postracial : Colorblind Reading Practices of Zombies, Sheriffs, and Slaveholders ; Adam Mansbach's Postracial Imaginary in Angry Black White Boy ; Black President Bush : The Racial and Gender Politics behind Dave Chappelle's Presidential Drag ; Seeing Race in Comics : Passing, Witness, and the Spectacle of Racial Violence in Johnson and Pleece's Incognegro
- New Identities. Introduction : Passing at the Intersections ; Passing Truths : Identity-Immersion Journalism and the Experience of Authenticity ; Passing for Tan : Snooki and the Grotesque Reality of Ethnicity ; The Pass of Least Resistance : Sexual Orientation and Race in ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" ; Neo-Passing and Dissociative Identities as Affective Strategies in Frankie and Alice ; "A New Type of Human Being" : Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity as Perpetual Passing in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex
- Afterword : Why Neo Now?.