White-to-Black: Racechange and Authenticity, from John Howard Griffin to Rachel Dolezal
Piotr Skurowski
Abstract
This article deals with the challenges posed by transgressing racial boundaries, where the perceptions and evaluations of such acts as "(in)authentic" provide a highly important dimension. Autobiographical texts by John Howard Griffin and grace Halsell are examined, in an effort to show the effect of the racial "passing" experience on subjectivity.| Author | |||||||||
| Pages | 69-86 | ||||||||
| Publication size in sheets | 0.85 | ||||||||
| Book | Pantuchowicz Agnieszka, Warso Anna (eds.): Culture(s) and Authenticity. The Politics of Translation and the Poetics of Imitation, Cultures in translation. Interdisciplinary studies in language, translation, culture and literature, vol. 1, 2017, Peter Lang Publishing Group, Peter Lang, ISBN 978-3-631-73239-7, [978-3-631-73240-3, 978-3-631-73241-0, 978-3-631-73242-7], 207 p., DOI:10.3726/b11652 | ||||||||
| Keywords in English | authenticity, racial cross-dressing, passing, whiteness, blackness | ||||||||
| Language | en angielski | ||||||||
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| Score (nominal) | 20 | ||||||||
| Score source | publisherList | ||||||||
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