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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... interested in setting up the relationship between racial nomenclature , color classifications , and passing narratives . The passing figure stands as a refutation of the unbridge- able distance between " black " and " white . " This ...
... interested in setting up the relationship between racial nomenclature , color classifications , and passing narratives . The passing figure stands as a refutation of the unbridge- able distance between " black " and " white . " This ...
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... interested in Light in August as representative of southern literature or a distinctively white author's perspective . Although the novel can be fruitfully read in these ways , I am interested in Faulkner's seventh novel as an ...
... interested in Light in August as representative of southern literature or a distinctively white author's perspective . Although the novel can be fruitfully read in these ways , I am interested in Faulkner's seventh novel as an ...
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... interested in the blurring of categories ; they are not interested in unsteadying our ontological sense of race . Politics not biology is at the heart of these narratives , and so in the move from passing to anti - passing stories , the ...
... interested in the blurring of categories ; they are not interested in unsteadying our ontological sense of race . Politics not biology is at the heart of these narratives , and so in the move from passing to anti - passing stories , the ...
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