Passing into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing
Sinead Moynihan
Abstract
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. 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. These writers are attracted to the trope because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the legibility of black subjects passing as white. The cen ... More
Keywords: American fiction, passing, textuality, black subjects, authorship, identity, postmodernism, Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719082290 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719082290.001.0001 |
