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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... beginning " on Craft's use of theme for his polemics , I hope to question the idea of beginnings . I do not so much want to hold onto Craft's narrative as a beginning as much as I hope to choose a starting point that suggests many lines ...
... beginning " on Craft's use of theme for his polemics , I hope to question the idea of beginnings . I do not so much want to hold onto Craft's narrative as a beginning as much as I hope to choose a starting point that suggests many lines ...
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... beginning to a history of passing , the present study is more interested in a beginning that suggests the importance of " passing " as a theme of rhetorical importance rather than " passing " as an anomalous event . 5. Robert Stepto's ...
... beginning to a history of passing , the present study is more interested in a beginning that suggests the importance of " passing " as a theme of rhetorical importance rather than " passing " as an anomalous event . 5. Robert Stepto's ...
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... beginning , Jackson is cautious : “ In our present state of knowledge about Afro - American literature , we may , and probably should , mark the beginning of that literature with [ Lucy Terry ] " ( 29 ) . 10. Although it would be easy ...
... beginning , Jackson is cautious : “ In our present state of knowledge about Afro - American literature , we may , and probably should , mark the beginning of that literature with [ Lucy Terry ] " ( 29 ) . 10. Although it would be easy ...
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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