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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... idea of " twoness " reverberates nervously . The Souls of Black Folk is a collection of essays that gathers cohesive- ness through the recurring and related tropes of " the Veil , " " double consciousness , " and " twoness . " Du Bois ...
... idea of " twoness " reverberates nervously . The Souls of Black Folk is a collection of essays that gathers cohesive- ness through the recurring and related tropes of " the Veil , " " double consciousness , " and " twoness . " Du Bois ...
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... idea of beginnings . I do not so much want to hold onto Craft's narrative as a beginning as much as I hope to choose a starting point that suggests many lines of simultaneous influence , especially between fact and fiction . In ...
... idea of beginnings . I do not so much want to hold onto Craft's narrative as a beginning as much as I hope to choose a starting point that suggests many lines of simultaneous influence , especially between fact and fiction . In ...
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... idea of a chosen people has greatly informed the ideologies of many modern nations , recent studies have been less concerned with presenting a unified narrative of nation than in exploring the contestatory rhetorics of discourse . To ...
... idea of a chosen people has greatly informed the ideologies of many modern nations , recent studies have been less concerned with presenting a unified narrative of nation than in exploring the contestatory rhetorics of discourse . To ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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