Theory

Concept of Letters

 * Tone Shifts in Letter Writing
 * The Human Stain: Book or Letter
 * Letters v. Emails: The Showdown
 * Troubles with Categorization
 * How Trustworthy are Letters?
 * Letters, E-Prime, and Matters of Identity

Materiality

 * The Public/Private and Interior/Exterior Binaries of the Letter
 * The Opening Letter of Passing
 * Outward Layers: Fashion in Conjunction with the Envelope
 * The Physicality of the Color-Line
 * A Rumination on Commodification and Letters


 * The Erotic Over/Undertones of The Letter

Language and Linguistics

 * Disruptions of Privacy in the House Behind the Cedars
 * The Dialects of Passing


 * Illiteracy
 * Different “Languages” in The Human Stain


 * The Human Stain and Passing as Metanarratives