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That Middle World
Julia S. Charles
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms
that middle world—and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds. Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyze mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces. To illustrate how this middle world and its attendant performativity still resonates in the present day, Charles connects contemporary figures, television, and film—including Rachel Dolezal and her Black-passing controversy, the FX show
Atlanta, and the musical
Show Boat—to a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary texts. Charles's work offers a nuanced approach to African American passing literature and examines how mixed-race performers articulated their sense of selfhood and communal belonging.
Kundenbewertungen
interracial relationships, mixed-race citizenship, racial passing literature, racial hybridity, gender presentation, James Weldon Johnson, performance studies, Nella Larsen, racial crossing, Jean Toomer, Mixed-race fugitivity, Charles W. Chesnutt, Racial passing, mixed-race studies, racial performance, Rachel Dolezal, gender performance, sexual identity in African American literature, Jessie Redmon Fauset, racial borders, drag performance, racial identity