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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... Show Boat . ( A Peculiar Treasure 277 ) But for all of Ferber's continuous and boastful self - promotion , in two lengthy autobiographies , she confesses a serious regret for Show Boat , which told the story of the South though it ...
... Show Boat . ( A Peculiar Treasure 277 ) But for all of Ferber's continuous and boastful self - promotion , in two lengthy autobiographies , she confesses a serious regret for Show Boat , which told the story of the South though it ...
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... Show Boat . " The Coalition to Stop Show Boat " had already voiced their opposition to what they consider to be " racist , anti - African propaganda . " Edna Ferber's novel , in addition to the play itself , was attacked : “ Since the ...
... Show Boat . " The Coalition to Stop Show Boat " had already voiced their opposition to what they consider to be " racist , anti - African propaganda . " Edna Ferber's novel , in addition to the play itself , was attacked : “ Since the ...
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... Musical includes discussions of all the many versions of Show Boat , book , plays , and movies . 30. See Robert Rydell's All the World's A Fair for the ways that the showboat's family contrasts and parallels with the fair's universe ...
... Musical includes discussions of all the many versions of Show Boat , book , plays , and movies . 30. See Robert Rydell's All the World's A Fair for the ways that the showboat's family contrasts and parallels with the fair's universe ...
Inhoudsopgave
An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
Copyright | |
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The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1998 |
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