Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow /
edited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young ; foreword by Gayle Wald ; afterword by Michele Elam.
Bok Engelsk 2018 MOLLIE;YOUNG JENNIFER GLASER;GODFREY
| Utgitt | University of Illinois Press , [2018]
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| Omfang | xvii, 274 pages : : illustrations ;
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| Opplysninger | Formerly CIP.. - "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"--. - info:sid/primo.exlibrisgroup.com-jstor
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| Geografisk emneord | United States. : (NL-LeOCL)078939836
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| ISBN | 0-252-04158-5
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