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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... seems to say , is unreadable to black and white alike . Yet the narrative continues to traffic in what can only be considered a provocative attention to black and white . Polemics In many ways , the above attention to the unstable ...
... seems to say , is unreadable to black and white alike . Yet the narrative continues to traffic in what can only be considered a provocative attention to black and white . Polemics In many ways , the above attention to the unstable ...
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... seems to punish Clare for being too white , too " having , " Irene , the passer that few critics acknowledge as such , seems to remain 32 The Passing Figure 52.
... seems to punish Clare for being too white , too " having , " Irene , the passer that few critics acknowledge as such , seems to remain 32 The Passing Figure 52.
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... seems to be an important topic to historians once again . Still , it seems surprising that Blacking Up remains the most recent full - length study . Eric Lott's Love and Theft is by far the most exciting addition to this growing ...
... seems to be an important topic to historians once again . Still , it seems surprising that Blacking Up remains the most recent full - length study . Eric Lott's Love and Theft is by far the most exciting addition to this growing ...
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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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African-American ambiguity American argues beginning black and white blackface Bois Bois's Brown Butterfly Carl Van Vechten chapter characters Christmas's Clare Clotel color line construction created Crying Game culture dark despite discourse Doc Hines dramatic Ellen escape explore fantasy Faulkner Ferber's fiction film Fitzgerald Frances Harper gender passing genre Glazer and Moynihan Harlem Renaissance highlight Home to Harlem Hwang identity Infants of Spring interest Irene Jazz Singer Joe Christmas Kol Nidre Light in August literature Magnolia mask McKay meaning metaphor Miles For Freedom minstrelsy movie narrator Negro nomenclature passing figure passing narratives perhaps play plot problem protagonist question race racial passing racialist racist Raymond reader representations Running a Thousand satire Schuyler sexuality Show Boat singing slave stereotypes story struggle suggest theme Thurman tragic mulatto University Press W. E. B. Du Bois white authors William Craft William Wells Brown writing York