The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature"How and when does literature most effectively uncover race to be a metaphor? 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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett ... ( Plum Bun ,
Jessie Fauset ) In his introduction to “ Race , ” Writing , and Difference , Henry
Louis Gates reminds us that “ [ w ] hen we speak of ' the white race ' or ' the black
race ...
Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett ... ( Plum Bun ,
Jessie Fauset ) In his introduction to “ Race , ” Writing , and Difference , Henry
Louis Gates reminds us that “ [ w ] hen we speak of ' the white race ' or ' the black
race ...
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Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett. other definitions
... With all these inversion of values , Black No More continuously attacks the
many and subtle values that have always undergirded beliefs in " race . ” Though
we ...
Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett. other definitions
... With all these inversion of values , Black No More continuously attacks the
many and subtle values that have always undergirded beliefs in " race . ” Though
we ...
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Passing From Race Into Sex In many ways our cultural assumptions about race
and sex fate us to fall into many ... Passing is possible because our definitions of
race and sex rely quite heavily on an equation between the external and internal
...
Passing From Race Into Sex In many ways our cultural assumptions about race
and sex fate us to fall into many ... Passing is possible because our definitions of
race and sex rely quite heavily on an equation between the external and internal
...
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Inhoudsopgave
An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Nomenclature Metaphor and Narrative | 11 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
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The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1998 |
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