Passing Into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing Monteith Sharon
Passing Into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing Monteith Sharon This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. The book…
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Passing Into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing Monteith Sharon
This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. 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, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. Its 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 central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the