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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.

Table of Contents

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

Passing into the Present Contemporary American

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/2/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719082290, 978-0719082290
      ISBN10: 0719082293

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      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

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