Sinéad Moynihan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American Studies at the University of Nottingham

• 1. Introduction: ‘Passing’ into the present: passing narratives then and now2. Living parchments, human documents: passing, racial identity and the literarymarketplace3. The way of the cross(-dresser): Catholicism, gender and race in two novels by Louise Erdrich 4. (W)Rites-of-passing: shifting racial and gender identities in Caucasia and Middlesex 5. Bodies / texts: passing and writing in The White Boy Shuffle and The Human Stain6. Conclusion: ‘Passing’ fads?: recent controversies of authenticity and authorshipBibliographyIndex

Sinéad Moynihan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American Studies at the University of Nottingham

• 1. Introduction: ‘Passing’ into the present: passing narratives then and now2. Living parchments, human documents: passing, racial identity and the literarymarketplace3. The way of the cross(-dresser): Catholicism, gender and race in two novels by Louise Erdrich 4. (W)Rites-of-passing: shifting racial and gender identities in Caucasia and Middlesex 5. Bodies / texts: passing and writing in The White Boy Shuffle and The Human Stain6. Conclusion: ‘Passing’ fads?: recent controversies of authenticity and authorshipBibliographyIndex

Sinéad Moynihan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American Studies at the University of Nottingham

• 1. Introduction: ‘Passing’ into the present: passing narratives then and now2. Living parchments, human documents: passing, racial identity and the literarymarketplace3. The way of the cross(-dresser): Catholicism, gender and race in two novels by Louise Erdrich 4. (W)Rites-of-passing: shifting racial and gender identities in Caucasia and Middlesex 5. Bodies / texts: passing and writing in The White Boy Shuffle and The Human Stain6. Conclusion: ‘Passing’ fads?: recent controversies of authenticity and authorshipBibliographyIndex