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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Moynihan, Sinéad
Titre(s) : Passing into the present [Texte électronique] : contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing / Sinéad Moynihan
Publication : Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (viii, 181 pages)
Collection : Contemporary American and Canadian writers
Note(s) : 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.
Sujet(s) : Roman américain -- 2000-.... -- Thèmes, motifs
Identité (psychologie) -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781847793294
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb450118940
Notice n° :
FRBNF45011894
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
