Passing Interest
Subtitle: Racial Passing in Us Novels, Memoirs, Television, and Film, 1990-2010
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781438452272
Subjects: American literature, history and criticism, 20th century; American literature, history and criticism, 21st century; Passing (identity) in literature; Race in literature
Description: "The first volume to focus on the trope of racial passing in novels, memoirs, television, and films published or produced between 1990 and 2010, Passing Interest takes the scholarly conversation on passing into the twenty-first century. With contributors working in the fields of African American studies, American studies, cultural studies, film studies, literature, and media studies, this book offers a rich, interdisciplinary survey of critical approaches to a broad range of contemporary passing texts. Contributors frame recent passing texts with a wide array of cultural discourses, including immigration law, the Post-Soul Aesthetic, contemporary political satire, affirmative action, the paradoxes of "colorblindness," and the rhetoric of "post-racialism"--