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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... look to character or narrative but to the play of concepts . In place of the strain created by a character's dissimulation , Black No More creates friction in the disruption of our expectations . Free of three - dimensional characters ...
... look to character or narrative but to the play of concepts . In place of the strain created by a character's dissimulation , Black No More creates friction in the disruption of our expectations . Free of three - dimensional characters ...
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... looks back on a decade of passing . But the events also look forward to this same literature , including its own textualization . Nella Larson's second novel Passing also looks back and gathers up a longer and larger history of passing ...
... looks back on a decade of passing . But the events also look forward to this same literature , including its own textualization . Nella Larson's second novel Passing also looks back and gathers up a longer and larger history of passing ...
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... look at the " unvarnished truth , " reflecting on the Negro's " double consciousness , " and , most telling , exploring a dialectics of music , black and white . That Johnson's ex - coloured man , with his move- ments across the color ...
... look at the " unvarnished truth , " reflecting on the Negro's " double consciousness , " and , most telling , exploring a dialectics of music , black and white . That Johnson's ex - coloured man , with his move- ments across the color ...
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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