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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... Finally , why has the phenomenon acquired so little clarity in its terminology , despite countless biographical , fictional , and philosophical writings that deal with it ? The concept and fact of passing , in many ways , challenges the ...
... Finally , why has the phenomenon acquired so little clarity in its terminology , despite countless biographical , fictional , and philosophical writings that deal with it ? The concept and fact of passing , in many ways , challenges the ...
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... finally threaten to unmask the passing figure , as the figure that haunts Du Bois's double - consciousness . How beautiful he was , with his olive - tinted flesh and dark gold ringlets , his eyes of mingled blue and brown , his perfect ...
... finally threaten to unmask the passing figure , as the figure that haunts Du Bois's double - consciousness . How beautiful he was , with his olive - tinted flesh and dark gold ringlets , his eyes of mingled blue and brown , his perfect ...
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... finally is cloaked in mystery . Hines , perhaps the most self - deluded religious zealot in all of literature , hardly inspires our confidence , yet earlier critics had taken his word about Joe's parentage to be fact . This despite ...
... finally is cloaked in mystery . Hines , perhaps the most self - deluded religious zealot in all of literature , hardly inspires our confidence , yet earlier critics had taken his word about Joe's parentage to be fact . This despite ...
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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