Neo-Passing
Performing Identity after Jim Crow
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Word Count
74,000 words, Guess
Page Count
296 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27371060M
- ISBN-100252083237
- ISBN-139780252083235
- Library of Congress Control Number2017057076
- OCLC Control Number1005108650
and 1 more
- Better World Books9780252083235
Classifications
- LCCPS169.P35N46 2018
- LCCPS169.P35 N46 2018
Description
"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"--
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