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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... seemed distinctly interested in capitalizing on existing myths about the mulatto / passing figure in order to narrate the struggle to become visible . The Ex - Coloured Man does finally write himself into existence as a warning to those ...
... seemed distinctly interested in capitalizing on existing myths about the mulatto / passing figure in order to narrate the struggle to become visible . The Ex - Coloured Man does finally write himself into existence as a warning to those ...
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... seemed a popular plot - device by the time William Craft , from the safety of England , wrote his and his wife's narrative . From his first lectures , he surely must have realized why their escape had seemed so " romantic . " In their ...
... seemed a popular plot - device by the time William Craft , from the safety of England , wrote his and his wife's narrative . From his first lectures , he surely must have realized why their escape had seemed so " romantic . " In their ...
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... seemed to be able to " pass " for white , and so “ impersonation ” narratives leave ontology largely unquestioned . But although the “ impersonation ” narratives of the 1920s often strongly support essentialist beliefs and leave “ race ...
... seemed to be able to " pass " for white , and so “ impersonation ” narratives leave ontology largely unquestioned . But although the “ impersonation ” narratives of the 1920s often strongly support essentialist beliefs and leave “ race ...
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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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