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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... narrator recedes frequently from the text in order to allow a host of characters - mostly unreliable narrators them- selves to relate different and differing details of Joe's story 26 The Passing Figure.
... narrator recedes frequently from the text in order to allow a host of characters - mostly unreliable narrators them- selves to relate different and differing details of Joe's story 26 The Passing Figure.
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... narrator continues to discover the roots of Joe's difference in the formative events of his childhood . Shaping the child with his expectations , Doc Hines becomes like a god in the dark recesses of memory : If the child had been older ...
... narrator continues to discover the roots of Joe's difference in the formative events of his childhood . Shaping the child with his expectations , Doc Hines becomes like a god in the dark recesses of memory : If the child had been older ...
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... published anonymously , so that the author , James Weldon Johnson , for what ever reason or reasons , does assume the same safe anonymity as his narrator . 4 Show Boat and Showboating : How White People Pass Running a Thousand Miles 59.
... published anonymously , so that the author , James Weldon Johnson , for what ever reason or reasons , does assume the same safe anonymity as his narrator . 4 Show Boat and Showboating : How White People Pass Running a Thousand Miles 59.
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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