{"id":22512,"date":"2012-04-16T16:50:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T16:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22512"},"modified":"2015-02-07T21:01:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T21:01:18","slug":"passing-performance-and-perversity-rewriting-bodies-in-the-works-of-lawrence-hill-shani-mootoo-and-danzy-senna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22512","title":{"rendered":"Passing, Performance, and Perversity: Rewriting Bodies in the Works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and Danzy Senna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk\/back\/issue26\/wall.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Passing, Performance, and Perversity: Rewriting Bodies in the Works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and Danzy Senna<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">49th Parallel: An interdisciplinary journal of North American studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/49thparalleljournal.org\/2014\/07\/12\/issue-26-autumn-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 26: Autumn 2011<\/a><br \/>\nISSN: 1753-5794<br \/>\n19 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:nwall@ucalgary.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Natalie Wall<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Calgary<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper examines the function of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a> in the works of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrencehill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Hill<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shani_Mootoo\" target=\"_blank\">Shani Mootoo<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\" target=\"_blank\">Danzy Senna<\/a>. It traces the historical use of the term passing, following its development from a static conception of the black person passing for white to a theoretical practice of acting out any\/every race, in order to open the term up and explore why passing is considered perverse by so many and enlightened by a few. Passing, the essay suggests, exposes the dual nature of race \u2013 a construct that is arbitrary and fictional but which also possesses immense social and material power. Finally, by juxtaposing the works of these three authors, the essay argues for a conception of passing as an intersectional phenomenon, defined not only by race but also by its interactions with class, gender, and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/fortyninthparalleljournal.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/5-wall-passing-performance-perversity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing, Performance, and Perversity: Rewriting Bodies in the Works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and Danzy Senna 49th Parallel: An interdisciplinary journal of North American studies Issue 26: Autumn 2011 ISSN: 1753-5794 19 pages Natalie Wall University of Calgary This paper examines the function of passing in the works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,6462],"tags":[10445,10444,1340,1568,10443,6865],"class_list":["post-22512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","tag-49th-parallel","tag-49th-parallel-an-interdisciplinary-journal-of-north-american-studies","tag-danzy-senna","tag-lawrence-hill","tag-natalie-wall","tag-shani-mootoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}