Tag: Philip Roth

  • Reading The Human Stain through Charles W. Chesnutt: The Genre of the Passing Novel Philip Roth Studies Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall 2006) pages 138-150 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2011.0066 Matthew Wilson, Professor of English and Humanities Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg This article historicizes The Human Stain, placing it in the genre of the passing novel. The analysis…

  • “Passing” and the American dream Salon Magazine 2003-11-03 Baz Dreisinger These days we’re supposed to think race doesn’t matter. But as “The Human Stain” and a raft of recent writing makes clear, we’re just as fascinated by its slippery boundaries as ever. Every now and then, cultural and social critics fashion an axiom that’s flippant,…

  • Crossing the Color Line: Narratives of Passing in American Literature St. Mary’s College of Maryland English 400.01 Fall 2008 Christine Wooley, Assistant Professor of English       This course will consider representations of passing (and thus also miscegenation) in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture. While passing has often been depicted-and dismissed-as an act of racial betrayal,…

  • The Discourse of Interracial and Multicultural Identity in 19th and 20th Century American Literature Indiana University of Pennsylvania May 2007 373 pages AAT 3257969 Dale M. Taylor A Dissertation Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy The narratives of and about…