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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... fantasy , or threat of passing also is of various importance in works by Countee Cullen , Claude McKay , Thomas Dixon , Frances Harper , William Craft , Richard Hildreth , Pauline Hopkins , Thomas Page , Sutton Griggs , Gertrude Stein ...
... fantasy , or threat of passing also is of various importance in works by Countee Cullen , Claude McKay , Thomas Dixon , Frances Harper , William Craft , Richard Hildreth , Pauline Hopkins , Thomas Page , Sutton Griggs , Gertrude Stein ...
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... fantasy . Both cost . While Julie is presented as a floating player , first white and then black , central than marginal , fixed and than unfixed , the hootchy kootchy dancer is a stable sign of desire and blackness . This opening scene ...
... fantasy . Both cost . While Julie is presented as a floating player , first white and then black , central than marginal , fixed and than unfixed , the hootchy kootchy dancer is a stable sign of desire and blackness . This opening scene ...
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... fantasy indulges in an uncritical play of evil in the name of satire . 26. Walter Benn Michaels provides an interesting discussion of Fitzgerald's marginal ( yet also central ) use of race in The Great Gatsby . Michaels argues that in ...
... fantasy indulges in an uncritical play of evil in the name of satire . 26. Walter Benn Michaels provides an interesting discussion of Fitzgerald's marginal ( yet also central ) use of race in The Great Gatsby . Michaels argues that in ...
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An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
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