Acknowledgments

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Politics of Passing 1
5. I. Passing to Freedom
6. The Subaltern as Imperialist: Speaking of Olaudah Equiano 21
7. "A Most Respectable Looking Gentleman": Passing, Possession, and Transgression in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom 37
8. II. The (Re)Construction of Race
9. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man: (Passing for) Black Passing for White 59
10. Sliding Significations: Passing as a Narrative and Textual Strategy in Nella Larsen's Fiction 75
11. III. Blackness and the White Imagination
12. Spanish Masquerade and the Drama of Racial Identity in Uncle Tom's Cabin 103
13. Blackness and the Literary Imagination: Uncovering The Hidden Hand 131
14. "A Most Disagreeable Mirror": Reflections on White Identity in Black Like Me 151
15. IV. Creating the Self
16. Confederate Counterfeit: The Case of the Cross-Dressed Civil War Soldier 181
17. Displacing Desire: Passing, Nostalgia, and Giovanni's Room 218
18. Passing for White, Passing for Black 234
19. Works Cited 271
20. Index 285
21. Contributors 297