Lipika Pelham: Passing | Buch

Cover: 9781787383814 | Passing | An Alternative History of Identity | Lipika Pelham | Buch

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A slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom, while a twenty-first-century black rights activist is 'cancelled' for denying her whiteness. A Victorian explorer disguises himself as a Muslim in Arabia's forbidden holy city. A trans man claiming to have been assigned male at birth is exposed and murdered by bigots in 1993. Today, Japanese untouchables leave home and change their name. All of them have "passed," performing or claiming an identity that society hasn't assigned or recognized as theirs. For as long as we've drawn lines describing ourselves and each other, people have naturally fallen or deliberately stepped between them. What do their stories--in life and in art--tell us about the changing meanings of identity? About our need for labels, despite their obvious limitations? Lipika Pelham reflects on tales of fluidity and transformation, including her own. From Pope Joan to Parasite, Brazil to Bangladesh, London to Liberia, Passing is a fascinating, timely history of the self.

Über den Autor

Lipika Pelham worked in the BBC newsroom for over a decade, and has reported from the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. Having made several award-winning documentary films, she now writes and produces independent programs for the BBC. Lipika is the author of Jerusalem on the Amstel, also available from OUP, and The Unlikely Settler.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781787383814
ISBN-10:	1787383814
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Pelham, Lipika
Hersteller:	C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	238 x 161 x 40 mm
Von/Mit:	Lipika Pelham
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2021
Gewicht:	0,796 kg