Toward a Narratology of Passing: Epistemology, Race, and Misrecognition in Nella Larsen's Passing

Towards a politics of form

“…Specific techniques such as signifying and double-voicedness have been documented as 'a re-semanticization of the familiar meaning to have a "decolonized"' sense (Gates, Jr., 1988: 51). Individual studies ask how race-and ethnicity-oriented perspectivity interacts with formal textual features (McIntire, 2012;Sohn, 2014;Puxan-Oliva, 2015), or work towards developing an understanding of how narratives of race interact with legal as well as social practices (Gutiérrez-Jones 2001; Kim, 2013).…”