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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... interest in the baggage , became somewhat uneasy , and went into my wife's room , and said to her , " Do you know the dark man downstairs ? " " Yes , he is my husband . " " Oh ! I mean the black man the nigger ? " " I quite understand ...
... interest in the baggage , became somewhat uneasy , and went into my wife's room , and said to her , " Do you know the dark man downstairs ? " " Yes , he is my husband . " " Oh ! I mean the black man the nigger ? " " I quite understand ...
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... interest is antebellum minstrelsy , parts of his study address the legacy of this popular entertainment . Significant to this study , Berndt Ostendorf's brief analysis of minstrelsy addresses issues of racial " cross - fertilization ...
... interest is antebellum minstrelsy , parts of his study address the legacy of this popular entertainment . Significant to this study , Berndt Ostendorf's brief analysis of minstrelsy addresses issues of racial " cross - fertilization ...
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... interest in the psychological and philosophical meaning of gender . In the same way that racial passing was first used as a plot device and then was elevated to the primary subject and purpose of the narrative , so too have I argued in ...
... interest in the psychological and philosophical meaning of gender . In the same way that racial passing was first used as a plot device and then was elevated to the primary subject and purpose of the narrative , so too have I argued in ...
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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