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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... development of this type of music . 10 " But while Whiteman tried to disassociate his jazz from its black roots , so too does he also preserve race , raciness , and the excitement of the " primitive other 64 The Passing Figure.
... development of this type of music . 10 " But while Whiteman tried to disassociate his jazz from its black roots , so too does he also preserve race , raciness , and the excitement of the " primitive other 64 The Passing Figure.
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Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett. raciness , and the excitement of the " primitive other . " These conflicting fears and desires are also manifest in the national debate over the meaning of “ jazz ” itself ...
Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett. raciness , and the excitement of the " primitive other . " These conflicting fears and desires are also manifest in the national debate over the meaning of “ jazz ” itself ...
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... exciting addition to this growing historiography ; unfortunately , his study was not published until after my own argument in these pages had already been in place . 13. In " The Souls of White Folk , " Walter Benn Michaels does not ...
... exciting addition to this growing historiography ; unfortunately , his study was not published until after my own argument in these pages had already been in place . 13. In " The Souls of White Folk , " Walter Benn Michaels does not ...
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An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
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