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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... argues precedes , in some form or another , Zangwill's 1908 play . 8. The OED and other dictionaries have been unsuccessful in providing a satisfactory etymology for " jazz , ” and although F. Scott Fitzgerald's prominent use of the ...
... argues precedes , in some form or another , Zangwill's 1908 play . 8. The OED and other dictionaries have been unsuccessful in providing a satisfactory etymology for " jazz , ” and although F. Scott Fitzgerald's prominent use of the ...
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... argues in " Twentieth - Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity ” that " the disappearance of the human Negro from our fiction coincides with the disappear- ance of deep - probing doubt and a sense of evil ” ( 35 ) . More ...
... argues in " Twentieth - Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity ” that " the disappearance of the human Negro from our fiction coincides with the disappear- ance of deep - probing doubt and a sense of evil ” ( 35 ) . More ...
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... argues that it is " unnecessary to choose whether the novella is ' about ' race or ' about ' sexuality and sexual conflict ... " See Bodies That Matter , p . 173 . 8. Faulkner , who was struggling to make a name for himself , most ...
... argues that it is " unnecessary to choose whether the novella is ' about ' race or ' about ' sexuality and sexual conflict ... " See Bodies That Matter , p . 173 . 8. Faulkner , who was struggling to make a name for himself , most ...
Inhoudsopgave
An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
Copyright | |
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