By Maria C. Sanchez,Linda Schlossberg
Passing for what you're not--whether it's mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women--can be a style of security or self-defense. however it can be a uniquely satisfying adventure, person who trades at the erotics of secrecy and revelation. it really is accurately passing's radical playfulness, how it asks us to re-evaluate our assumptions and forces our such a lot adored fantasies of id to self-destruct, that's centrally addressed in Passing: identification and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion.
Identity in Western tradition is basically established round visibility, even if within the provider of technological know-how (Victorian physiognomy), psychoanalysis (Lacan's reflect stage), or philosophy (the Panopticon). As such, it really is charged with anxieties concerning type and social demarcation. Passing wreaks havoc with approved platforms of social acceptance and cultural intelligibility, blurring the carefully-marked traces of race, gender, and class.
Bringing jointly theories of passing throughout a number of disciplines--from serious race conception and lesbian and homosexual stories, to literary idea and spiritual studies--Passing complicates our present realizing of the visible and different types of identity.
Contributors: Michael Bronski, Karen McCarthy Brown, Bradley Epps, Judith Halberstam, Peter Hitchcock, Daniel Itzkovitz, Patrick O'Malley, Miriam Peskowitz, María C. Sánchez Linda Schlossberg, and Sharon Ullman.
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