Encompassing Passing
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- ISBN 9783631812648
- Weight: 302g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
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.
