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"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"--

Race in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Race awareness --- African Americans --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Negritude --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Race identity. --- Ethnic identity

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Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Julia Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyse mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialised spaces.

Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Racially mixed people in literature. --- Race in literature. --- American literature --- Racially mixed people --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Race identity

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The past two decades have seen a growing influx of biracial discourse in fiction, memoir, and theory, and since the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency, debates over whether America has entered a "post-racial" phase have set the media abuzz. In this penetrating and provocative study, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins adds a new dimension to this dialogue as she investigates the ways in which various mixed-race writers and public figures have redefined both "blackness" and "whiteness" by invoking multiple racial identities. Focusing on several key novels-Nella Larsen's Quicksand

Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Racially mixed people --- Racially mixed people in literature. --- African Americans --- American fiction --- Mulattoes in literature --- Negritude --- American literature --- Race identity --- Race identity. --- History and criticism. --- Ethnic identity

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This book is a full-length study of contemporary American fiction of 'passing'. It 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.

American fiction --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- 21st century --- History and criticism --- Passing (Identity) in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- Gender identity in literature --- Erdrich, Louise --- Eugenides, Jeffrey --- Senna, Danzy --- Roth, Philip --- Beatty, Paul --- Literature --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General --- Literature: history & criticism --- American fiction. --- Louise Erdrich. --- Percival Everett. --- Phillip Roth. --- authorship. --- black subjects. --- identity. --- passing. --- postmodernism. --- textuality.

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This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity.By bringing together these areas of analysis, Justin Edwards considers the following questions. How are the categories of "race" and the rhetoric of racial difference tied to the language of gothicism? What can these discursive ties tell us about a range of social boundaries-gender, sexuality, class, race, etc.-during the nineteenth century? What can the construction and destabilization of these social boundaries tell us

Ambiguity in literature. --- American fiction --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales, American --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Racially mixed people in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Mulattoes in literature --- AMERICAN FICTION --- RACE RELATIONS --- RACE IN LITERATURE --- AMBIGUITE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- NEO-GOTHIQUE (LITTERATURE) --- 19th CENTURY --- U.S. --- ETATS-UNIS