The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American LiteraturePeter Lang, 1996 - 142 pagina's How and when does literature most effectively uncover race to be a mataphor? The passing figure, a light-skinned African-American capable and willing to pass for white, provides the thematic focus to this provocative study. In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race. |
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... Raymond , modeled after the author himself , is : sick of discussing the Negro problem , of having it thrust at me from every conversational nook and cranny . I'm sick of whites who think I can't talk about anything else , and of ...
... Raymond , modeled after the author himself , is : sick of discussing the Negro problem , of having it thrust at me from every conversational nook and cranny . I'm sick of whites who think I can't talk about anything else , and of ...
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... Raymond the same compliment originally accorded to him by Bull : " You never have been and never will be a Negro to me . " ( 192 ) Although Raymond has felt similar feelings , he feels betrayed by Stephen's disgorgement . Still , Raymond ...
... Raymond the same compliment originally accorded to him by Bull : " You never have been and never will be a Negro to me . " ( 192 ) Although Raymond has felt similar feelings , he feels betrayed by Stephen's disgorgement . Still , Raymond ...
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... Raymond and his incisive judgments that we frequently are introduced to the other residents of Niggerati Manor . It is also through Raymond and through a narrator who is virtually indistinguishable from Raymond , that a wide array of ...
... Raymond and his incisive judgments that we frequently are introduced to the other residents of Niggerati Manor . It is also through Raymond and through a narrator who is virtually indistinguishable from Raymond , that a wide array of ...
Inhoudsopgave
An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
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The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1998 |
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