Catalog

Record Details

Catalog Search

Search Results filters

Filtered by:

Back To Results
Showing Item 1 of 1

Crossing the line : racial passing in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture  Cover Image Book Book

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

Wald, Gayle 1965- (Author).

Item details

  • ISBN: 0822325152 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780822325154 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0822324792 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780822324799 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xiii, 251 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 1995.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-240) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Also issued online.
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
African Americans Intellectual life 20th century
Racially mixed people in literature
Passing (Identity) in literature
African Americans in literature
Group identity in literature
Race in literature
Rassenverhoudingen
Etnisch bewustzijn
Letterkunde

Currently available copies

  • 1 out of 1 copy are currently available at PINES.

Holds

  • 0 current holds on 1 total copy.
Sort by distance from:
Show Only Available Copies
Library System: Library Branch Name
Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status  
Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System:
      Augusta-Richmond Co. Public Lib.
810.9 WAL ( Send Text)
31019004033620 ADULT Available

Back To Results
Showing Item 1 of 1

Additional Resources