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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... Perhaps this too will be revised by some future student anxious to install an even newer nomencla- ture . For a rather compelling explanation of the constant revisions of names for African - Americans , William Raspberry quotes a friend ...
... Perhaps this too will be revised by some future student anxious to install an even newer nomencla- ture . For a rather compelling explanation of the constant revisions of names for African - Americans , William Raspberry quotes a friend ...
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... Perhaps Du Bois , like Irene in Passing , thought it the " kindest thing not to ask ? " Or perhaps Du Bois's notion of double consciousness was so recognizably influenced by images of the mulatto / passer that the figure needed to be ...
... Perhaps Du Bois , like Irene in Passing , thought it the " kindest thing not to ask ? " Or perhaps Du Bois's notion of double consciousness was so recognizably influenced by images of the mulatto / passer that the figure needed to be ...
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... perhaps this plaintive , wailing song of jazz is , after all , the misunderstood utterance of prayer . Though The Jazz Singer will soon associate " this plaintive , wailing song of jazz " specifically with the Hebrew prayer " Kol Nidre ...
... perhaps this plaintive , wailing song of jazz is , after all , the misunderstood utterance of prayer . Though The Jazz Singer will soon associate " this plaintive , wailing song of jazz " specifically with the Hebrew prayer " Kol Nidre ...
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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