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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... less negative and sometimes less obvious forms of racial impersonation or 2 mimicry conveyed through music , speech , and even An Introduction to Passing.
... less negative and sometimes less obvious forms of racial impersonation or 2 mimicry conveyed through music , speech , and even An Introduction to Passing.
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... less proscriptive way , we would both do best to focus not on jazz as a source of definitive knowledge and meaning but as a site of contestation . 19. Andrew Sarris , in " The Cultural Guilt of Musical Movies " reminds us that this film ...
... less proscriptive way , we would both do best to focus not on jazz as a source of definitive knowledge and meaning but as a site of contestation . 19. Andrew Sarris , in " The Cultural Guilt of Musical Movies " reminds us that this film ...
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... less clearly stated in the actual novel , and we need not rely on Faulkner's University of Virginia speeches to underline the importance of Christmas's unknown racial heritage . " Race " in this novel clearly and cleverly is made a ...
... less clearly stated in the actual novel , and we need not rely on Faulkner's University of Virginia speeches to underline the importance of Christmas's unknown racial heritage . " Race " in this novel clearly and cleverly is made a ...
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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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