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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... sexuality . I am particularly interested in the ways that issues of sexuality might be said to " pass " as issues of gender . This is possible in part , as Gayle Rubin points out in her essay " Thinking Sex , " because of our inability ...
... sexuality . I am particularly interested in the ways that issues of sexuality might be said to " pass " as issues of gender . This is possible in part , as Gayle Rubin points out in her essay " Thinking Sex , " because of our inability ...
Pagina 114
... sexuality to create chains of meaning . 11 In this section , I am interested in how race , which had been questioned through numerous passing narratives at the beginning of this century , reappears in the narratives of gender passing in ...
... sexuality to create chains of meaning . 11 In this section , I am interested in how race , which had been questioned through numerous passing narratives at the beginning of this century , reappears in the narratives of gender passing in ...
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... sexuality and sexual conflict ... " See Bodies That Matter , p . 173 . 8. Faulkner , who was struggling to make a name for himself , most certainly would have been aware , and even envious , that Edna Ferber had just won the Pulitzer ...
... sexuality and sexual conflict ... " See Bodies That Matter , p . 173 . 8. Faulkner , who was struggling to make a name for himself , most certainly would have been aware , and even envious , that Edna Ferber had just won the Pulitzer ...
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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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