Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow / edited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young ; foreword by Gayle Wald ; afterword by Michele Elam.
Material type: TextPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780252050244
- 025205024X
- Passing (Identity) in literature
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Race awareness -- United States
- African Americans in literature
- Race in literature
- Passing (Identité) dans la littérature
- Noirs américains -- Identité ethnique
- Conscience de race -- États-Unis
- Noirs américains dans la littérature
- Race dans la littérature
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
- African Americans in literature
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Passing (Identity) in literature
- Race awareness
- Race in literature
- United States
- 810.9/355 23
- PS169.P35
- SOC001000 | LIT004040
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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.
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Introduction : The Neo-Passing Narrative -- Appendix to the Introduction. Neo-Passing Narratives : Teaching and Scholarly Resources -- New Histories. Introduction : Passing at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century ; Why Passing Is (Still) Not Passé after More Than 250 Years : Sources from the Past and Present ; Passing for Postracial : Colorblind Reading Practices of Zombies, Sheriffs, and Slaveholders ; Adam Mansbach's Postracial Imaginary in Angry Black White Boy ; Black President Bush : The Racial and Gender Politics behind Dave Chappelle's Presidential Drag ; Seeing Race in Comics : Passing, Witness, and the Spectacle of Racial Violence in Johnson and Pleece's Incognegro -- New Identities. Introduction : Passing at the Intersections ; Passing Truths : Identity-Immersion Journalism and the Experience of Authenticity ; Passing for Tan : Snooki and the Grotesque Reality of Ethnicity ; The Pass of Least Resistance : Sexual Orientation and Race in ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" ; Neo-Passing and Dissociative Identities as Affective Strategies in Frankie and Alice ; "A New Type of Human Being" : Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity as Perpetual Passing in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex -- Afterword : Why Neo Now?.
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