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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... better to examine what is at stake in that contestation of terms and meanings . Mask The Jazz Singer , despite its title , tells the story of a blackface Mammie singer who might seem more a fixture of the past than of the jazzy future ...
... better to examine what is at stake in that contestation of terms and meanings . Mask The Jazz Singer , despite its title , tells the story of a blackface Mammie singer who might seem more a fixture of the past than of the jazzy future ...
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... better . But atonement does not require answered prayers and " papa " does not get better . Still the idea of atonement reverberates in the continuous associations made between the jewish prayer and the jazz prayer . Should we read jazz ...
... better . But atonement does not require answered prayers and " papa " does not get better . Still the idea of atonement reverberates in the continuous associations made between the jewish prayer and the jazz prayer . Should we read jazz ...
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... better word " the reality " ) of Joe Christmas becomes secondary to the fictions that construct him . Regina Fadiman's hypothesis that there was " an early version of the story in which Joe Christmas was merely a name or was seen only ...
... better word " the reality " ) of Joe Christmas becomes secondary to the fictions that construct him . Regina Fadiman's hypothesis that there was " an early version of the story in which Joe Christmas was merely a name or was seen only ...
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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