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Book SynopsisThrough a variety of texts - novels, memoirs, film, drama, theory, museum exhibits, legal cases - this title demonstrates the dynamics of passing, presenting it not as the assumption of a fraudulent identity but as the recognition that the assumption of any identity, including for the purposes of teaching, is a form of passing.
Trade Review"This is sophisticated and unsettling work-usefully unsettling. Pamela Caughie makes an original contribution to current thinking on the dilemmas of pedagogy in 'multicultural' or 'cultural studies' classrooms and presents a powerful case for why everyone should feel responsible for confronting the issues she raises."-Mary Loeffelholz, author of Experimental Lives: Women and Literature, 1900-1945 "An extraordinary book. Risky and rigorous, informed and provocative, Caughie's book will speak excitingly to teachers, scholars, and students of cultural, literary, and identity studies."-Robert Dale Parker, author of "Absalom, Absalom!":The Questioning of Fictions
