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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... began to announce the same subject matter without drawing on a strictly Manichean view of the world . As the vogue for Harlem , and all things associated with the Negro , continued , there had to be new ways to suggest verisimilitude ...
... began to announce the same subject matter without drawing on a strictly Manichean view of the world . As the vogue for Harlem , and all things associated with the Negro , continued , there had to be new ways to suggest verisimilitude ...
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... began to replace older mechanistic models sometime around the 1920s . 32. The impossible nature of this task arises from the false dichotomy ; representational forces are after all also material forces . 33. This hyperbole from Huggins ...
... began to replace older mechanistic models sometime around the 1920s . 32. The impossible nature of this task arises from the false dichotomy ; representational forces are after all also material forces . 33. This hyperbole from Huggins ...
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... began and ended her career writing novels that explored with compassionate detail the emotional costs of leaving the African - American community for a false life in the " opposite " race . These books are all in print ; many have ...
... began and ended her career writing novels that explored with compassionate detail the emotional costs of leaving the African - American community for a false life in the " opposite " race . These books are all in print ; many have ...
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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African-American ambiguity American argues beginning black and white blackface Bois Bois's Brown Butterfly Carl Van Vechten chapter characters Christmas's Clare Clotel color line construction created Crying Game culture dark despite discourse Doc Hines dramatic Ellen escape explore fantasy Faulkner Ferber's fiction film Fitzgerald Frances Harper gender passing genre Glazer and Moynihan Harlem Renaissance highlight Home to Harlem Hwang identity Infants of Spring interest Irene Jazz Singer Joe Christmas Kol Nidre Light in August literature Magnolia mask McKay meaning metaphor Miles For Freedom minstrelsy movie narrator Negro nomenclature passing figure passing narratives perhaps play plot problem protagonist question race racial passing racialist racist Raymond reader representations Running a Thousand satire Schuyler sexuality Show Boat singing slave stereotypes story struggle suggest theme Thurman tragic mulatto University Press W. E. B. Du Bois white authors William Craft William Wells Brown writing York