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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... actors , hardly agents of their own future , perform America by donning the prescribed dress and singing the prescribed song . Being American is reduced to being not an individual , which of course goes against one of this country's ...
... actors , hardly agents of their own future , perform America by donning the prescribed dress and singing the prescribed song . Being American is reduced to being not an individual , which of course goes against one of this country's ...
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... acting too white . Conservative clothes , processed hair , a certain walk , and other visual markings are the signs of being non- black . In this video " race " is discernible as a choice . In " The Toms , " a comedy sketch performed by ...
... acting too white . Conservative clothes , processed hair , a certain walk , and other visual markings are the signs of being non- black . In this video " race " is discernible as a choice . In " The Toms , " a comedy sketch performed by ...
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... actor , dons a dress . The incongruity is the beginning , middle , and end of the story . The intent and result of these gender passings are always laughter rather than psychological or social revelation . Although the director of ...
... actor , dons a dress . The incongruity is the beginning , middle , and end of the story . The intent and result of these gender passings are always laughter rather than psychological or social revelation . Although the director of ...
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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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