Passing Interest

Passing Interest
Title Passing Interest PDF eBook
Author Julie Cary Nerad
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 362
Release 2014-07-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1438452276

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Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era. 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.

Passing Interest

Passing Interest
Title Passing Interest PDF eBook
Author Julie Cary Nerad
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 362
Release 2014-06-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1438452292

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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.

Hearings

Hearings
Title Hearings PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher
Pages 1174
Release 1958
Genre Finance
ISBN

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Revenue Act of 1978

Revenue Act of 1978
Title Revenue Act of 1978 PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher
Pages 328
Release 1978
Genre Income tax
ISBN

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Transactions

Transactions
Title Transactions PDF eBook
Author East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society
Publisher
Pages 422
Release 1910
Genre Hertfordshire (England)
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The Process of Drama

The Process of Drama
Title The Process of Drama PDF eBook
Author John O'Toole
Publisher Routledge
Pages 269
Release 2003-09-02
Genre Art
ISBN 1134891008

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An original and invaluable model of the elements of drama in context. O'Toole demonstrates how dramatic meaning emerges, shaped by its multiple contexts, and illuminates the importance of all participants to the dramatic process.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson
Title Robert Louis Stevenson PDF eBook
Author Richard Ambrosini
Publisher Univ of Wisconsin Press
Pages 410
Release 2006-04-04
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0299212238

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Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries reinstates Stevenson at the center of critical debate and demonstrates the sophistication of his writings and the present relevance of his kaleidoscopic achievements. While most young readers know Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) as the author of Treasure Island, few people outside of academia are aware of the breadth of his literary output. The contributors to Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries look, with varied critical approaches, at the whole range of his literary production and unite to confer scholarly legitimacy on this enormously influential writer who has been neglected by critics. As the editors point out in their Introduction, Stevenson reinvented the “personal essay” and the “walking tour essay,” in texts of ironic stylistic brilliance that broke completely with Victorian moralism. His first full-length work of fiction, Treasure Island, provocatively combined a popular genre (subverting its imperialist ideology) with a self-conscious literary approach. Stevenson, one of Scotland’s most prolific writers, was very effectively excluded from the canon by his twentieth-century successors and rejected by Anglo-American Modernist writers and critics for his play with popular genres and for his non-serious metaliterary brilliance. While Stevenson’s critical recognition has been slowly increasing, there have been far fewer published single-volume studies of his works than those of his contemporaries, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.