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

• Autore: Moynihan Sinéad
• 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
• ISBN: 1-78170-272-1; 1-84779-329-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808245703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary American and Canadian writers.