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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... past American studies . Philip Fisher provides a brief history of this transition in " American Literary and Cultural Studies Since the Civil War . " 2. Oscar Handlin's The Promised Land is perhaps the most insightful and readable of ...
... past American studies . Philip Fisher provides a brief history of this transition in " American Literary and Cultural Studies Since the Civil War . " 2. Oscar Handlin's The Promised Land is perhaps the most insightful and readable of ...
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... past , critics have been more interested in attending to the differences and non - integrative qualities of the Lena Grove and Joe Christmas plots than their important inter - relationship . Perhaps we might use Wild Palms as a guide ...
... past , critics have been more interested in attending to the differences and non - integrative qualities of the Lena Grove and Joe Christmas plots than their important inter - relationship . Perhaps we might use Wild Palms as a guide ...
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... past and present conceptions of race . " The Passing Figure : Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature is a first - rate effort in re - examining the Harlem Renaissance and 1920s America in a fresh way . This study connects ...
... past and present conceptions of race . " The Passing Figure : Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature is a first - rate effort in re - examining the Harlem Renaissance and 1920s America in a fresh way . This study connects ...
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An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
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