Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika A.

Crossing Black Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture / [Recurso electrónico] : Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins. - 1st ed. - Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What's old is new again, or The brand new fetish: black/white bodies in American racial discourse -- From naxos to Copenhagen: Helga Crane's mixed-race aspirations in Nella Larsen's Quicksand -- Homeward bound: negotiating borders in Lucinda Roy's Lady Moses and Danzy Senna's Caucasia -- "This is how memory works": boundary crossing, belonging, and Blackness in mixed-race autobiographies -- B(l)ack to last drop? Mariah Carey, Halle Berry, and the complexities of racial identity in popular culture.

Libro Electrónico

9781572339774 1572339772




Passing (Identity) in literature.
Racially mixed people--Race identity--United States.
Racially mixed people in literature.
African Americans--Race identity.
American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century


Electronic books.

PS374.N4 / D34 2013

813/.5409896073