Passing Into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing

by Sinéad Moynihan

This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.

The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526156016
• ISBN13: 9781526156013
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"