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001 2017057076
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008 171207s2018 ilu b s001 0 eng
010 _a 2017057076
020 _a9780252041587 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
020 _a9780252083235 (softcover : acid-free paper)
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_beng
_erda
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_dDLC
050 0 0 _aPS169.P35
_bN46 2018
082 0 0 _a810.9/355
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084 _aSOC001000
_aLIT004040
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245 0 0 _aNeo-passing :
_bperforming identity after Jim Crow /
_cedited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young ; foreword by Gayle Wald ; afterword by Michele Elam.
264 1 _aUrbana :
_bUniversity of Illinois Press,
_c[2018]
300 _axvii, 274 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 _aPassing (Identity) in literature.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xRace identity.
650 0 _aRace awareness
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 _aRace in literature.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
_2bisacsh
700 1 _aGodfrey, Mollie,
_d1979-
700 1 _aYoung, Vershawn Ashanti,
700 1 _aWald, Gayle,
_d1965-
700 1 _aElam, Michele,
999 _c234017
_d234017