Passing: A Strategy to Dissolve Identities and Remap Differences

Passing: A Strategy to Dissolve Identities and Remap Differences
ISBN-10
0838641253
ISBN-13
9780838641255
Series
Passing
Category
Philosophy (General)
Pages
142
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Author
Anna Camaiti Hostert

Description

"Starting from this consideration, Camaiti Hostert's book turns the meaning of the social practice of passing upside down and makes it become a universal tool to redefine any social, ethnic, gender, and religious identity. Based on the Foucauldian consideration that total visibility is a "trap," the author focuses her attention on the interstices, on the spaces off and on the narratives between the lines. The emphasis is on the transitional moment, in a Gramscian sense: the fluid state flowing between the starting and ending points becomes the place of a counter-hegemony, which helps not only to rewrite history but also to change the political status quo." "Camaiti Hostert's book emphasizes hybridity and displacement; passing is a tool to redefine in our contemporary times the role of social practices as well as the personal self."--BOOK JACKET.

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