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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Pagina 53
... mask : ... her face had become a mask . Now she turned on him a totally uncomprehending look , a bit questioning . ( 227 ) From this point on , Irene acts with little racial loyalty , refraining from warning her friend that her husband ...
... mask : ... her face had become a mask . Now she turned on him a totally uncomprehending look , a bit questioning . ( 227 ) From this point on , Irene acts with little racial loyalty , refraining from warning her friend that her husband ...
Pagina 70
... mask of blackness frustrates any easy association with blackness qua racial category . Perhaps blackness cannot reattach to " race " and " the Negro . " But jazz , which reverberates so dramatically with the " Kol Nidre ” prayer , goes ...
... mask of blackness frustrates any easy association with blackness qua racial category . Perhaps blackness cannot reattach to " race " and " the Negro . " But jazz , which reverberates so dramatically with the " Kol Nidre ” prayer , goes ...
Pagina 91
... mask " ( 49 ) . I am not suggesting that The Jazz Singer's use of the mask is free of these dynamics , but we might imagine the text as caught in at least one other ( and somewhat incompatible ) depiction of “ race . ” 23. Perhaps ...
... mask " ( 49 ) . I am not suggesting that The Jazz Singer's use of the mask is free of these dynamics , but we might imagine the text as caught in at least one other ( and somewhat incompatible ) depiction of “ race . ” 23. Perhaps ...
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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