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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... question the meaning of " race , " but Clare — that symbol of ambiguity and instability — has this question riddle her entire existence . She dies , like most passing figures , because she is unsolvable . With its characters quite free ...
... question the meaning of " race , " but Clare — that symbol of ambiguity and instability — has this question riddle her entire existence . She dies , like most passing figures , because she is unsolvable . With its characters quite free ...
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... question of sexual difference , according to Luce Irigaray , is the question that defines our times . Irigaray's assertion , the opening sentence of Ethics of Sexual Difference ( 1984 ) , hardly seems startling in today's sexually ...
... question of sexual difference , according to Luce Irigaray , is the question that defines our times . Irigaray's assertion , the opening sentence of Ethics of Sexual Difference ( 1984 ) , hardly seems startling in today's sexually ...
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... questions of how we imagine difference and brotherhood , Clay is not actually a black man in the movie , and race is never a subject or a question within the story itself . When , for example , Clay's plastic surgeon and love interest ...
... questions of how we imagine difference and brotherhood , Clay is not actually a black man in the movie , and race is never a subject or a question within the story itself . When , for example , Clay's plastic surgeon and love interest ...
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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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