Title Crossing the line : racial passing in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture / Gayle Wald

Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : illustrations Series New Americanists New Americanists. Contents Introduction : Race, passing, and cultural representation -- Home again : racial negotiations in modernist African American passing narratives -- Mezz Mezzrow and the voluntary negro blues -- Boundaries lost and found : racial passing and cinematic representation, circa 1949 -- "I'm through with passing" : postpassing narratives in Black popular literary culture -- "A most disagreeable mirror" : reflections of white identity in Black like me -- Epilogue : Passing, "color blindness," and contemporary discourses of race and identity Summary 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 Notes Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1995 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History -- 20th century American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism Racially mixed people in literature. Passing (Identity) in literature. African Americans in literature. Group identity in literature. Race in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. African Americans in literature American prose literature American prose literature -- African American authors Group identity in literature Passing (Identity) Passing (Identity) in literature Race in literature Racially mixed people in literature Rassenverhoudingen. Etnisch bewustzijn. Letterkunde. United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0822380927 9780822380924

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