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



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Autore: Moynihan Sinéad Visualizza persona
Titolo: Passing into the present : contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing / / Sinéad Moynihan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013
©2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 pages) : digital file(s)
Disciplina: 813.5409353
Soggetto topico: American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
Passing (Identity) in literature
Literature
Literature: History & Criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Literature: history & criticism
Soggetto non controllato: American fiction
Louise Erdrich
Percival Everett
Phillip Roth
authorship
black subjects
identity
passing
postmodernism
textuality
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Passing into the present  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78170-272-1
1-84779-329-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791950903321
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Serie: Contemporary American and Canadian writers.