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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... feels to be a problem , " or what it is like to feel a sense of " twoness . " Du Bois studiously avoids the conventional symbol of the mulatto , when his own metaphors threaten to overlap . One ever feels his twoness , - -an American ...
... feels to be a problem , " or what it is like to feel a sense of " twoness . " Du Bois studiously avoids the conventional symbol of the mulatto , when his own metaphors threaten to overlap . One ever feels his twoness , - -an American ...
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... feelings , he feels betrayed by Stephen's disgorgement . Still , Raymond tries to erase his own " race , " fantasizing about a promising future , a time when a " few Negroes ... escape their race ” ( 217 ) . That Raymond is unable to do ...
... feelings , he feels betrayed by Stephen's disgorgement . Still , Raymond tries to erase his own " race , " fantasizing about a promising future , a time when a " few Negroes ... escape their race ” ( 217 ) . That Raymond is unable to do ...
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... feels he is stating the obvious when he says that The Jazz Singer “ contains no jazz , ” and I feel that I am quite correct in thinking of jazz in a less proscriptive way , we would both do best to focus not on jazz as a source of ...
... feels he is stating the obvious when he says that The Jazz Singer “ contains no jazz , ” and I feel that I am quite correct in thinking of jazz in a less proscriptive way , we would both do best to focus not on jazz as a source of ...
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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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