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How often does a novel earn its author both the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded to Harper Lee by George W. Bush in 2007, and a spot on a list of "100 best gay and lesbian novels"? Clearly, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of race relations and coming of age in Depression-era Alabama, means many different things to many different people. In Mockingbird Passing, Holly Blackford invites the reader to view Lee's beloved novel in parallel with works by other iconic American writers-from Emerson, Whitman, Stowe, and Twain to James, Wharton

Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Lee, Harper. --- Lee, Harper --- Passing (Identity) in literature

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This book is a collection of articles written by international scholars and dealing with passing from a textual and cultural perspective. All these explorations of a complex identity phenomenon that defies reductive dualities result in scholarly interrogations of societal arrangements. The texts under perusal belong to different historical periods and various communities. The novelty of this collection is that passing is viewed not only as a racial or gendered transformation, but also as a religious one. The book deals with passing either as a strategy that results in assimilation, melting, and merging, or as resistance and challenge against the whiteness-only-based identity politics.

Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- European literature --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Passing (Identity) --- History and criticism.

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"This volume seeks to theorize and explore the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why--in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment--is passing still of such literary and cultural interest? To answer this question, chapters in this book focus on a range of passing practices, performances and texts that are part of the emerging genre of what we call neo-passing narratives. Neo-passing narratives are contemporary narratives that depict someone being taken for an identity other than what s/he is considered really to be. That these texts are written, constructed, or produced at a time when passing should have passed reveals that the questions passing raises--questions about how identity is performed and contested in relation to social norms--are just as relevant now as they were at the turn of the twentieth century"--

Race in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Race awareness --- African Americans --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Negritude --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Race identity. --- Ethnic identity

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Passing (Identity) in literature --- Difference (Psychology) in literature --- Gender identity in literature --- Racially mixed people in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Group identity in literature

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Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century Focusing on texts written between 1880 and 1930, Mary McAleer Balkun explores the concept of the "counterfeit," both in terms of material goods and invented identities, and the ways that the acquisition of objects came to define individuals in American culture and literature. Counterfeiting is, in one sense, about the creation of something that appears authentic-an invented self, a museum display, a forged work of art. But the counterfeit can also be a means by which the authentic

American literature --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Self in literature --- Passing (Identity) in literature --- Counterfeits and counterfeiting --- Literature --- Twain, Mark --- Larsen, Nella --- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott --- Counterfeits and counterfeiting in literature. --- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature. --- Impostors and imposture in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism.