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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... defined only by color , bearing a unique burden through American history - will deter- mine whether race relations ... definition and self - definition , and much of the future of race relations in the city and the country depends on ...
... defined only by color , bearing a unique burden through American history - will deter- mine whether race relations ... definition and self - definition , and much of the future of race relations in the city and the country depends on ...
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... defined as " the stranger , " " nigger , " and " Negro . " Byron Bunch , providing reflections we might often expect ... defines and subsequently constructs Joe Christmas as “ a foreigner " and non- white ( 29 ) . This early scene ...
... defined as " the stranger , " " nigger , " and " Negro . " Byron Bunch , providing reflections we might often expect ... defines and subsequently constructs Joe Christmas as “ a foreigner " and non- white ( 29 ) . This early scene ...
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... defined not only by the uniqueness of its subject but by its symbolic and structural strategies . Where do we locate the beginning of this history ? Because it is an act more than a figure , " passing " is defined most effectively ...
... defined not only by the uniqueness of its subject but by its symbolic and structural strategies . Where do we locate the beginning of this history ? Because it is an act more than a figure , " passing " is defined most effectively ...
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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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