Crossing b(l)ack
Subtitle: mixed-race identity in modern American fiction and culture
By: Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781572339323
Subjects: Race identity; Passing (Identity) in literature; Racially mixed people; African Americans; American fiction; History and criticism; Racially mixed people in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What's old is new again, or The brand new fetish: black/white bodies in American racial discourse; title: From naxos to Copenhagen: Helga Crane's mixed-race aspirations in Nella Larsen's Quicksand; title: Homeward bound: negotiating borders in Lucinda Roy's Lady Moses and Danzy Senna's Caucasia; title: "This is how memory works": boundary crossing, belonging, and Blackness in mixed-race autobiographies; title: B(l)ack to last drop? Mariah Carey, Halle Berry, and the complexities of racial identity in popular culture.