Passing into the present

Passing into the presentThis is the first full length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.

Drawing on fifteen years of experience

Dublin City University

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