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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... offers the following explanation : " As long as a group is ostracized or otherwise demeaned , whatever name is used to designate that group will eventually take on a demeaning flavor and have to be replaced . The designation will keep ...
... offers the following explanation : " As long as a group is ostracized or otherwise demeaned , whatever name is used to designate that group will eventually take on a demeaning flavor and have to be replaced . The designation will keep ...
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... offers to take the reader , who is assumed to be outside of the veil of blackness , into its " deeper recesses . " ... I have sketched in swift outline the two worlds within and without the Veil , and thus have come to the central ...
... offers to take the reader , who is assumed to be outside of the veil of blackness , into its " deeper recesses . " ... I have sketched in swift outline the two worlds within and without the Veil , and thus have come to the central ...
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... offers a more tangible literary event , Jackson replaces Jupitor Hammon , who " only a decade or two ago was generally supposed [ to be ] the first Negro American writer , " with Lucy Terry . But even in this new beginning , Jackson is ...
... offers a more tangible literary event , Jackson replaces Jupitor Hammon , who " only a decade or two ago was generally supposed [ to be ] the first Negro American writer , " with Lucy Terry . But even in this new beginning , Jackson is ...
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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