Passing Into the Present - Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing

Informationen zum Autor Sinéad Moynihan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American Studies at the University of Nottingham Klappentext This 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 1990's in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. Zusammenfassung This 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 1990’s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: 'Passing' into the present: passing narratives then and now2. Living parchments, human documents: passing, racial identity and the literarymarketplace3. 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 Stain6. Conclusion: 'Passing' fads?: recent controversies of authenticity and authorshipBibliographyIndex

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• Autori: Sinead Moynihan, Sinéad Moynihan, Moynihan Sinead
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 02.08.2010
• EAN: 9780719082290
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8229-0
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers; Contemporary American and Cana; Contemporary American and Canadian Writers; Contemporary American and Cana
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form