Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism Volume 5, Number 2, 2005 pages 1-29 E-ISSN: 1547-8424 Print ISSN: 1536-6936 DOI: 10.1353/mer.2005.0013 Miriam Thaggert, Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies University of Iowa In Passing Nella Larsen seems to suggest that identity is a hazy fiction one tells that…

  • This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity.

  • Voices from the Gaps: Kym Ragusa Voices from the Gaps University of Minnesota 2007-04-24 Shalee Dettmann Joey Grihalva Jenna Fodness Gaushia Thao I don’t know where I was conceived, but I was made in Harlem. Its topography is mapped on my body: the borderlines between neighborhoods marked by streets that were forbidden to cross, the…

  • Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility Peter Lang Publishing Group 2010 146 pages Hardback ISBN 978-1-4331-0803-7 Edited by Cybelle H. McFadden, Assistant Professor of French University of North Carolina, Greensboro Sandrine F. Teixidor, Assistant Professor of French Studies Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility underscores the writing of authors who foreground…

  • CRN 47519/47520-Mixed Race Asian Americans University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Fall 2008 Kent Ono, Professor of Asian American Studies, Communication, and Institute of Communications Research Part of Asian American Ethnic Groups (AAS-450) This course provides an introduction to the study of mixed race Asian Americans. From discussions of famous mixed race people, such as Tiger Woods,…

  • Interrogating Identity Construction: Bodies versus Community in Cynthia Kadohata’s In the Heart of the Valley of Love Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 1 (2010) pages 61-69 Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In an interview for the journal MELUS, Hsiu-chuan Lee claims that Cynthia Kadohata…

  • “What is In My Blood?”: Contemporary Black Scottishness and the Work of Jackie Kay [Book Chapter] Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi B.V. 2002-09-15 328 pages ISBN-10: 9042014180 ISBN-13: 978-9042014183 pp. 1-25(25) edited by Teresa Hubal and Neil Brooks Peter Clandfield, Assistant Professor of English Studies Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada The work of the…

  • AAS 434-Constructions of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Spring 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary study of miscegenation, mulattos, and passing in the United States. Focuses on the Afro-American context, using historical, literary, and cinematic sources in order to grapple with and gain an understanding of the complexities of…

  • Mixed bodies, separate races: The trope of the “(tragic) mulatto” in twentieth-century African literature McMaster University (Canada) 2007 251 pages AAT NR57539 Diana Adesola Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University This dissertation proposes that the American literary trope of the “tragic mulatto” has both roots and resonances in sub-Saharan Africa. The concept of the…

  • Hybridity and Whiteness in Claudine C. O’Hearn’s Half and Half: Writings on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture Volume 7, Issue 3 (September 2005) 9 pages Heather Latimer Simon Fraser University In her paper, “Hybridity and Whiteness” in Claudine C. O’Hearn’s Half and Half: Writings on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural,…