دانلود کتاب Passing Interest: Racial Passing in US Novels, Memoirs, Television, and Film, 1990–2010
by Julie Cary Nerad
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عنوان فارسی: علاقه عبور: نژادی عبور در ما رمان خاطرات, تلویزیون و فیلم 1990-2010 |
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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.” Many explore whether “one drop” of blood still governs our sense of racial identity, or to what extent contemporary American culture allows for the racially indeterminate individual. Some essays open the scholarly conversation to focus on “ethnic” passers—individuals who complicate the traditional black-white binary—while others explore the slippage between traditional racial passing and related forms of racial performance, including blackface minstrelsy and racial masquerade.
“…this volume will prove useful to those in a broad spectrum of fields, including film, literature, and cultural studies … Highly recommended.” — CHOICE
Julie Cary Nerad is Associate Professor of American Literature at Morgan State University.