TY - BOOK AU - Moynihan,Sinéad TI - Passing into the present: contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing T2 - Contemporary American and Canadian writers SN - 9781781702727 AV - PS380 .M69 2010 U1 - 813.5409353 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - American fiction KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - Passing (Identity) in literature KW - Ethnicity in literature KW - Gender identity in literature KW - Roman américain KW - 21e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Passing (Identité) dans la littérature KW - Ethnicité dans la littérature KW - Identité sexuelle dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Copyright; Contents; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 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 N2 - This book is a full-length study of contemporary American fiction of 'passing'. It takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=515163 ER -