Encompassing Passing

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DOI 10.3726/ b17424

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About the author

Mihaela Mudure has a PhD in English literature from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She has taught at Romanian, Czech, and Turkish universities. Dr Mudure has promoted gender studies in Romania and is interested in the British Enlightenment, ethnic literatures in the USA, and the intersection between gender and ethnicity.

About the book

Mihaela Mudure (ed.)

Encompassing Passing

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.

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Introduction

Sorina Maria Ailiesei

China Men and the American Dream: Crossing Borders in Quest for New Identities

Cristina Garrigós

Neither Fish nor Bird, but Fird and Bish: Centrifugal Ethnicity in Richard Powers’ The Time of Our Singing

Monica Matei-Chesnoiu

Spatial Hybridity and Passing in Shakespeare’s Othello

Nóra Máthé

The Double-Edged Sword of Passing: A Transgender Woman in Julia Serano’s Whipping Girl

Mihaela Mudure

Passing and Conversion in Daniel Deronda

Sofía Muñoz-Valdivieso

Performing Identity and Passing in Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist and Jackie Kay’s Trumpet

Aparajita Nanda