Wald / Pease Crossing the Line

Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8092-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

Examines constructions of racial identity through the exploration of passing narratives including Black Like Me and forties jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow’s memoir Really the Blues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wald, Gayle

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation

1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing Narratives

2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues

3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation, circa 1949

4. “I’m Through with Passing”: Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular Literary Culture

5. “A Most Disagreeable Mirror”: Reflections on White Identity in Black Like Me

Epilogue: Passing, “Color Blindness,” and Contemporary Discourses of Race and Identity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gayle Wald is Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University.