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 questi...

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Weitere Verfasser: Godfrey, Mollie 1979- (HerausgeberIn), Young, Vershawn Ashanti 1973- (HerausgeberIn), Elam, Michele (VerfasserIn eines Nachworts)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield University of Illinois Press [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:"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"...
Beschreibung:xvii, 274 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780252083235
9780252041587