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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... knew me , let alone I was your son . ( 51 ) These quotations from , respectively , Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life , Nella Larson's Passing , and Langston Hughes's short story " Passing , " suggest that the authors assumed that their ...
... knew me , let alone I was your son . ( 51 ) These quotations from , respectively , Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life , Nella Larson's Passing , and Langston Hughes's short story " Passing , " suggest that the authors assumed that their ...
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... knew somehow that the fellow had nigger blood . Maybe the circus folks told him . I don't know . He aint never said how he found out , like that never made any difference . And I reckon it didn't , after the next night . " ( 354 ...
... knew somehow that the fellow had nigger blood . Maybe the circus folks told him . I don't know . He aint never said how he found out , like that never made any difference . And I reckon it didn't , after the next night . " ( 354 ...
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... imagines the child as caught in a bodily civil war where the " brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue . " Du Bois transforms his son into a symbol , for though his son " knew no color 56 The Passing Figure.
... imagines the child as caught in a bodily civil war where the " brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue . " Du Bois transforms his son into a symbol , for though his son " knew no color 56 The Passing Figure.
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