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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... eternally indebted . Thank you to all my friends at the Moosewood Restaurant -- too numerous to thank , too important to forget . John Whitsett made everything else possible . Table of Contents An Introduction to Passing Black No More.
... eternally indebted . Thank you to all my friends at the Moosewood Restaurant -- too numerous to thank , too important to forget . John Whitsett made everything else possible . Table of Contents An Introduction to Passing Black No More.
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... everything from the maternal figure to the kleptomaniac - has passed over the passing figure . Perhaps this explains the difficulty in indexing passing or the passer , an event and a character that escapes attention gladly . The passing ...
... everything from the maternal figure to the kleptomaniac - has passed over the passing figure . Perhaps this explains the difficulty in indexing passing or the passer , an event and a character that escapes attention gladly . The passing ...
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... everything without a screen of fiction . boldness in depicting " twoness " as a struggle between American and Negro consciousnesses , and not between black and white blood , shows his ability to rewrite the script of blackness . That ...
... everything without a screen of fiction . boldness in depicting " twoness " as a struggle between American and Negro consciousnesses , and not between black and white blood , shows his ability to rewrite the script of blackness . That ...
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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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