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Encompassing Passing

Identities in the Making

by Mihaela Mudure (Volume editor)
©2020 Edited Collection 174 Pages

Summary

This book is a collection of articles written by international scholars and dealing with passing from a textual and cultural perspective. All these explorations of a complex identity phenomenon that defies reductive dualities result in scholarly interrogations of societal arrangements. The texts under perusal belong to different historical periods and various communities. The novelty of this collection is that passing is viewed not only as a racial or gendered transformation, but also as a religious one. The book deals with passing either as a strategy that results in assimilation, melting, and merging, or as resistance and challenge against the whiteness-only-based identity politics.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the editors
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction: (Mihaela Mudure)
  • China Men and the American Dream: Crossing Borders in Quest for New Identities: (Sorina Maria Ailiesei)
  • Neither Fish nor Bird, but Fird and Bish: Centrifugal Ethnicity in Richard Powers’ The Time of Our Singing: (Cristina Garrigós)
  • Spatial Hybridity and Passing in Shakespeare’s Othello: (Monica Matei-Chesnoiu)
  • The Double-Edged Sword of Passing: A Transgender Woman in Julia Serano’s Whipping Girl: (Nóra Máthé)
  • Passing and Conversion in Daniel Deronda: (Mihaela Mudure)
  • Performing Identity and Passing in Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist and Jackie Kay’s Trumpet: (Sofía Muñoz-Valdivieso)
  • Butler’s “Akin” and the Narrative of Passing: (Aparajita Nanda)
  • “Then I Went Dark and Started to Leave”: Racial Passing in Harlan Ellison’s Pennies, Off a Dead Man’s Eyes: (Florina Năstase)
  • “The Oddest of All Oddities”: Slavery in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World: (Mathilde Roza)
  • Economies of Passing — Identity Lessons and Tragedy: (Bent Sørensen)
  • From Dangerous Rites of Passing to Staging Oneself in a Multicultural America: The Human Stain and Native Speaker: (Jelena Šesnić)
  • Notes on Contributors

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About the author

Mihaela Mudure has a PhD in English literature from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She has taught at Romanian, Czech, and Turkish universities. Dr Mudure has promoted gender studies in Romania and is interested in the British Enlightenment, ethnic literatures in the USA, and the intersection between gender and ethnicity.

About the book

Mihaela Mudure (ed.)

Encompassing Passing

This book is a collection of articles written by international scholars and dealing with passing from a textual and cultural perspective. All these explorations of a complex identity phenomenon that defies reductive dualities result in scholarly interrogations of societal arrangements. The texts under perusal belong to different historical periods and various communities. The novelty of this collection is that passing is viewed not only as a racial or gendered transformation, but also as a religious one. The book deals with passing either as a strategy that results in assimilation, melting, and merging, or as resistance and challenge against the whiteness-only-based identity politics.

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

Details

Pages
174
Publication Year
2020
ISBN (PDF)
9783631832264
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631832271
ISBN (MOBI)
9783631832288
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631812648
DOI
10.3726/b17424
Language
English
Publication date
2020 (December)
Published
Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 174 pp.

Biographical notes

Mihaela Mudure (Volume editor)

Mihaela Mudure has a PhD in English literature from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She has taught at Romanian, Czech, and Turkish universities. Dr Mudure has promoted gender studies in Romania and is interested in the British Enlightenment, ethnic literatures in the USA, and the intersection between gender and ethnicity.

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