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

Format Electronic
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Descriptionxvii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Subjects
Passing (Identity) in literature.
African Americans--Race identity.
Race awareness--United States.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.

Other author/creatorGodfrey, Mollie, 1979-
Other author/creatorYoung, Vershawn Ashanti.
Other author/creatorWald, Gayle, 1965-
Other author/creatorElam, Michele.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017057076
ISBN9780252041587 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780252083235 (softcover : acid-free paper)

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