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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... mean to suggest that these novels were typical of the post - World War I era . Few works attend to surface and meaning of color as assiduously as these two novels . Nonetheless , their extreme obsession with color makes them useful as ...
... mean to suggest that these novels were typical of the post - World War I era . Few works attend to surface and meaning of color as assiduously as these two novels . Nonetheless , their extreme obsession with color makes them useful as ...
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... Meaning of Jazz often attends to the racial meaning of key events and debates over jazz . Chapter Three is a ... mean by American culture . My interest in the overlapping rituals of performing America and performing blackness ...
... Meaning of Jazz often attends to the racial meaning of key events and debates over jazz . Chapter Three is a ... mean by American culture . My interest in the overlapping rituals of performing America and performing blackness ...
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... mean . Definitions of " race " have always relied heavily on the correlation of the external and internal , although ... meaning and for its very existence . Much recent work has questioned , along with Judith Butler , the definition of ...
... mean . Definitions of " race " have always relied heavily on the correlation of the external and internal , although ... meaning and for its very existence . Much recent work has questioned , along with Judith Butler , the definition of ...
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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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