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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... mother . Other novels replace these familial obligations with a vague and mysterious calling of race . This magnetic pull of like for like is provocatively underlined in Larson's novel . Irene's husband explains why Clare must return to ...
... mother . Other novels replace these familial obligations with a vague and mysterious calling of race . This magnetic pull of like for like is provocatively underlined in Larson's novel . Irene's husband explains why Clare must return to ...
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... mother , and by extension us , in how to make a song jazzy ; he speeds up the tempo of " Blue Skies , " pounding out the syncopation . But the movie gives less attention to defining the music of jazz and more to the elusive spirit of ...
... mother , and by extension us , in how to make a song jazzy ; he speeds up the tempo of " Blue Skies , " pounding out the syncopation . But the movie gives less attention to defining the music of jazz and more to the elusive spirit of ...
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... Mother Rabinowitz suggests that if her son sings the " Kol Nidre " maybe " papa " will get better . But atonement does not require answered prayers and " papa " does not get better . Still the idea of atonement reverberates in the ...
... Mother Rabinowitz suggests that if her son sings the " Kol Nidre " maybe " papa " will get better . But atonement does not require answered prayers and " papa " does not get better . Still the idea of atonement reverberates in the ...
Inhoudsopgave
An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
Copyright | |
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The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1998 |
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