TY - GEN T1 - Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow A2 - Godfrey, Mollie, 1979- A2 - Young, Vershawn Ashanti A2 - Wald, Gayle, 1965- A2 - Elam, Michele LA - English PP - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1028552378 AB - "This volume seeks to theorize and explore the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why--in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment--is passing still of such literary and cultural interest? To answer this question, chapters in this book focus on a range of passing practices, performances and texts that are part of the emerging genre of what we call neo-passing narratives. Neo-passing narratives are contemporary narratives that depict someone being taken for an identity other than what s/he is considered really to be. That these texts are written, constructed, or produced at a time when passing should have passed reveals that the questions passing raises--questions about how identity is performed and contested in relation to social norms--are just as relevant now as they were at the turn of the twentieth century"-- CN - PS169.P35 SN - 9780252050244 SN - 025205024X SN - 9780252041587 SN - 9780252083235 SN - 0252041585 SN - 0252083237 SN - 9780252041587 (hardcover : acid-free paper) KW - Passing (Identity) in literature. KW - African Americans : Race identity. KW - Race awareness : United States. KW - African Americans in literature. KW - Race in literature. KW - Passing (Identité) dans la littérature. KW - Noirs américains : Identité ethnique. KW - Conscience de race : États-Unis. KW - Noirs américains dans la littérature. KW - Race dans la littérature. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. KW - African Americans in literature KW - African Americans : Race identity KW - Passing (Identity) in literature KW - Race awareness KW - Race in literature KW - United States KW - Electronic book. ER -