Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow /
Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow /
edited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young ; foreword by Gayle Wald ; afterword by Michele Elam.
- xvii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--
9780252041587 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 9780252083235 (softcover : acid-free paper)
2017057076
Passing (Identity) in literature.
African Americans--Race identity.
Race awareness--United States.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
PS169.P35 / N46 2018
810.9/355
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--
9780252041587 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 9780252083235 (softcover : acid-free paper)
2017057076
Passing (Identity) in literature.
African Americans--Race identity.
Race awareness--United States.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
PS169.P35 / N46 2018
810.9/355