UID:
almafu_9959239896902883
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-252-05024-X
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Passing and "Post-Race" -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Neo-Passing Narrative -- Appendix to the Introduction. Neo-Passing Narratives: Teaching and Scholarly Resources -- Part I. New Histories -- Introduction: Passing at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- 1. Why Passing Is (Still) Not Passé after More Than 250 Years: Sources from the Past and Present -- 2. Passing for Postracial: Colorblind Reading Practices of Zombies, Sheriffs, and Slaveholders -- 3. Adam Mansbach's Postracial Imaginary in Angry Black White Boy -- 4. Black President Bush: The Racial and Gender Politics behind Dave Chappelle's Presidential Drag -- 5. Seeing Race in Comics: Passing, Witness, and the Spectacle of Racial Violence in Johnson and Pleece's Incognegro -- Part II. New Identities -- Introduction: Passing at the Intersections -- 6. Passing Truths: Identity-Immersion Journalism and the Experience of Authenticity -- 7. Passing for Tan: Snooki and the Grotesque Reality of Ethnicity -- 8. The Pass of Least Resistance: Sexual Orientation and Race in ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" -- 9. Neo-Passing and Dissociative Identities as Affective Strategies in Frankie and Alice -- 10. "A New Type of Human Being": Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity as Perpetual Passing in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex -- Afterword: Why Neo Now? -- Contributors -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-252-08323-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-252-04158-5
Language:
English
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