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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... scene , with Julie envisioned as a Madam's private secretary , reestablishes Julie - here called Jule - as a tragic victim . As if to highlight her own inability to dispose of Julie , Ferber never clarifies whether Magnolia truly sees ...
... scene , with Julie envisioned as a Madam's private secretary , reestablishes Julie - here called Jule - as a tragic victim . As if to highlight her own inability to dispose of Julie , Ferber never clarifies whether Magnolia truly sees ...
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... scenes to reinforce the counterpointing of black and white . It is in that tension that Hammerstein transforms Ferber's ... scene , with its ethnological display , highlights the spectacle and the performance of blackness . While Julie's ...
... scenes to reinforce the counterpointing of black and white . It is in that tension that Hammerstein transforms Ferber's ... scene , with its ethnological display , highlights the spectacle and the performance of blackness . While Julie's ...
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... scene of racism : a black officer , in the company of a white woman , is followed by what appear to be menacing thugs . Jude , the blonde woman , warns Jody , the black man , not to kiss her in public . " Who gives a fuck ! " Jody ...
... scene of racism : a black officer , in the company of a white woman , is followed by what appear to be menacing thugs . Jude , the blonde woman , warns Jody , the black man , not to kiss her in public . " Who gives a fuck ! " Jody ...
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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