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Gayle Wald is Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University.
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. An analysis of narratives of racial passing, offering a strategy for engaging such narratives. To erode race's authority, Gayle Wald argues, we must understand how race defines and yet fails to represent identity. She thus uses cultural narratives of passing to illuminate both the contradictions of race and the deployment of such contradictions for a variety of needs, interests and desires. Wald begins her reading of 20th-century passing narratives by analyzing works by African-American writers James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen, showing how they use the "passing plot" to explore the negotiation of identity, agency and freedom within the context of their protagonists' restricted choices. She then examines the 1946 autobiography, "Really The Blues", and the 1949 films "Pinky" and "Lost Boundaries". Finally, after a look at liberal contradictions of John Howard Griffin's 1961 auto-ethnography "Black Like Me", Wald concludes with an epilogue that considers the idea of passing in the context of the discourse of "colour blindness". Suitable for the scholars of American studies, African American studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism, this title uses cultural narratives of passing to illuminate both the contradictions of race and the deployment of such contradictions for a variety of needs, interests, and desires. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780822324799
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