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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... hear .... One has to read what he says , whether he agrees with it or not . 10 Scholars of the twenties would do well to study Schuyler , as some have begun to study Mencken , as the very heart and spirit of the times . He begins his ...
... hear .... One has to read what he says , whether he agrees with it or not . 10 Scholars of the twenties would do well to study Schuyler , as some have begun to study Mencken , as the very heart and spirit of the times . He begins his ...
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... , they speak English in the absence of the defining and paying ! -white fairgoers : " We're glad to see those white folks go ! " and " ... take me back today to Avenue A ! " ( 100 ) . i " " T We never hear from the Dahomeys Show Boat 77.
... , they speak English in the absence of the defining and paying ! -white fairgoers : " We're glad to see those white folks go ! " and " ... take me back today to Avenue A ! " ( 100 ) . i " " T We never hear from the Dahomeys Show Boat 77.
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... hear about the " nigger " only through him , Christmas's race 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 ...
... hear about the " nigger " only through him , Christmas's race 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 ...
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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African-American ambiguity American argues beginning black and white blackface Bois Bois's Brown Butterfly Carl Van Vechten chapter characters Christmas's Clare Clotel color line construction created Crying Game culture dark despite discourse Doc Hines dramatic Ellen escape explore fantasy Faulkner Ferber's fiction film Fitzgerald Frances Harper gender passing genre Glazer and Moynihan Harlem Renaissance highlight Home to Harlem Hwang identity Infants of Spring interest Irene Jazz Singer Joe Christmas Kol Nidre Light in August literature Magnolia mask McKay meaning metaphor Miles For Freedom minstrelsy movie narrator Negro nomenclature passing figure passing narratives perhaps play plot problem protagonist question race racial passing racialist racist Raymond reader representations Running a Thousand satire Schuyler sexuality Show Boat singing slave stereotypes story struggle suggest theme Thurman tragic mulatto University Press W. E. B. Du Bois white authors William Craft William Wells Brown writing York