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Shades of Passing: Teaching and Interrogating Identity in Roth's The Human Stain and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
- Philip Roth Studies
- Purdue University Press
- Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2006
- pp. 151-160
- 10.1353/prs.2006.a386383
- Article
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This pedagogically based article looks at the notions of racial and socioeconomic passing in The Human Stain and The Great Gatsby. Reading together these two works offers a discourse on passing that presents an important teachable moment about issues of selfhood and marginalized identities in the United States.