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Race in literature --- Literature [Comparative ] --- Mulattoes in literature --- Passing (Identity) in literature --- Mulattoes in literature. --- Passing (Identity) in literature.

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Comparative literature. --- Miscegenation in literature. --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Racially mixed people in literature.

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"Mixed-Race Superheroes examines representations of racial mixedness, literal, metaphorical, and symbolic, that take on, challenge, or complicate the stereotypes and romanticization of mixed-race identities and the idea of the superhero. Racial mixedness has long been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies on the one hand, while also ironically connoting genetic superiority, exceptional beauty/physicality and unique potential. In contemporary discussions, this romanticization of racial mixedness is linked to the idea of the mixed-race individual as a kind of savior figure who has unique abilities to free us from racial tensions and divisions. While racial mixedness is now sometimes viewed as a superpower in itself, the origins of superhero stories are much more substantively rooted in the opposed rhetoric and practice of racial purity and white supremacy. In short, racial mixedness and superheroes are both historically and currently linked"--

Comic books, strips, etc --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Racially mixed people in literature. --- Racially mixed people --- Superheroes in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Race identity --- Comic books, strips, etc.

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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. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.

Roman américain --- Acculturation --- Métissage --- Identité sexuelle --- American fiction --- Passing (Identity) in literature --- Dans la littérature --- Dans la littérature --- Dans la littérature --- History and criticism

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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