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Passing and the fictions of identity

Title
Passing and the fictions of identity / edited by Elaine K. Ginsberg.
Publication
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors
Ginsberg, Elaine K., 1936-
Description
vi, 298 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
New Americanists
Subject
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Passing (Identity) in literature
  • Difference (Psychology) in literature
  • Gender identity in literature
  • African Americans > Race identity
  • African Americans in literature
  • Group identity in literature
  • United States > Civilization
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-284) and index.
Contents
The subaltern as imperialist : speaking of Olaudah Equiano / Marion Rust -- "A most respectable looking gentleman" : passing, possession, and transgression in Running a thousand miles for freedom / Ellen M. Weinauer -- The autobiography of an ex-coloured man : (passing for) Black passing for white / Samira Kawash -- Sliding significations : passing as a narrative and textual strategy in Nella Larsen's fiction / Martha J. Cutter -- Spanish masquerade and the drama of racial identity in Uncle Tom's cabin / Julia Stern -- Blackness and the literary imagination : uncovering The hidden hand / Katharine Nicholson Ings -- "A most disagreable mirror" : reflections on white identity in Black like me / Gayle Wald -- Confederate counterfeit : the case of the cross-dressed Civil War soldier / Elizabeth Young -- Displacing desire : passing, nostalgia, and Giovanni's room / Valerie Rohy -- Passing for white, passing for Black / Adrian Piper.
Call Number
Sc E 96-877
ISBN
  • 0822317559 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822317648 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
95040106
OCLC
33334099
Title
Passing and the fictions of identity / edited by Elaine K. Ginsberg.
Imprint
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1996.
Series
New Americanists
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-284) and index.
Added Author
Ginsberg, Elaine K., 1936-
Research Call Number
Sc E 96-877
JFE 96-9438
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