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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... despite the rhetoric of sameness . He feels his blackness despite brief crossings of the color line : ... for Jake this woman was [ not ] only a creature of another race - of another world . ( 8 ) He does not find equality in sexual ...
... despite the rhetoric of sameness . He feels his blackness despite brief crossings of the color line : ... for Jake this woman was [ not ] only a creature of another race - of another world . ( 8 ) He does not find equality in sexual ...
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... Despite a general interest in passing throughout her study Neither White Nor Black : The Mulatto Character in American Fiction , Judith Berzon focuses one entire chapter on " The Novel of Passing . " Although the critic discusses texts ...
... Despite a general interest in passing throughout her study Neither White Nor Black : The Mulatto Character in American Fiction , Judith Berzon focuses one entire chapter on " The Novel of Passing . " Although the critic discusses texts ...
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... 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 . The protagonist shuffles , rolls his eyes , and sings to his " Mammie . " We first see him as a little ...
... 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 . The protagonist shuffles , rolls his eyes , and sings to his " Mammie . " We first see him as a little ...
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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