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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808245703321

Autore

Moynihan Sinéad

Titolo

Passing into the present : contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing / / Sinéad Moynihan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

©2010

ISBN

1-78170-272-1

1-84779-329-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Contemporary American and Canadian writers

Disciplina

813.5409353

Soggetti

American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

Passing (Identity) in literature

Literature

Literature: History & Criticism

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General

Literature: history & criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: 'passing' into the present: passing narratives then and now; 2 Living parchments, human documents: passing, racial identity and the literary marketplace; 3 The way of the cross(-dresser): Catholicism, gender and race in two novels by Louise Erdrich; 4 (W)Rites-of-passing: shifting racial and gender identities in Caucasia and Middlesex; 5 Bodies/texts: passing and writing in The White Boy Shuffle and The Human Stain; 6 Conclusion: 'passing' fads?: recent controversies of authenticity and authorship; Bibliography

Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.