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Passing Into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing

Passing Into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing

Moynihan, Sinead

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Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 1526156016
ISBN13: 9781526156013
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jun 29 2021
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its 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.

The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of black subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship.

The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.

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