Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow / edited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young ; foreword by Gayle Wald ; afterword by Michele Elam.

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Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]Description: xvii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780252041587 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9780252083235 (softcover : acid-free paper)

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DDC classification:

810.9/355 23

LOC classification:

PS169.P35 N46 2018

Other classification:

SOC001000 | LIT004040

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.