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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... color , and not just the ubiquitous " black , " was everywhere associated with " racial themes . " Countless novels concerned with " race " began by establishing the color rather than the character of the protagonist . In many ways color ...
... color , and not just the ubiquitous " black , " was everywhere associated with " racial themes . " Countless novels concerned with " race " began by establishing the color rather than the character of the protagonist . In many ways color ...
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... color as a metonym for " race " and " primitivism , " Home to Harlem manages to inject enough irony and satire to unsteady its readers . Perhaps McKay's obsessive attention to the many variations in color allows Home to Harlem to escape ...
... color as a metonym for " race " and " primitivism , " Home to Harlem manages to inject enough irony and satire to unsteady its readers . Perhaps McKay's obsessive attention to the many variations in color allows Home to Harlem to escape ...
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... color as assiduously as these two novels . Nonetheless , their extreme obsession with color makes them useful as examples of the way existing ideas of " race " were questioned through color . I would distinguish these works from ...
... color as assiduously as these two novels . Nonetheless , their extreme obsession with color makes them useful as examples of the way existing ideas of " race " were questioned through color . I would distinguish these works from ...
Inhoudsopgave
An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
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The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1998 |
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