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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... dynamic of light- skinned blacks dissembling whiteness , or simply allowing themselves to be taken for white , was always phrased as " passing for white . " Not so during the period when Harlem was in vogue . But even 4 The Passing Figure.
... dynamic of light- skinned blacks dissembling whiteness , or simply allowing themselves to be taken for white , was always phrased as " passing for white . " Not so during the period when Harlem was in vogue . But even 4 The Passing Figure.
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... simply corrected : above the obliterated " Negroes " is written " Blacks . " Perhaps this too will be revised by some future student anxious to install an even newer nomencla- ture . For a rather compelling explanation of the constant ...
... simply corrected : above the obliterated " Negroes " is written " Blacks . " Perhaps this too will be revised by some future student anxious to install an even newer nomencla- ture . For a rather compelling explanation of the constant ...
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... simply initiate the familiar story of racial transgression , he reenacts the even more familiar story of " the exotic primitive , ” “ the brute negro , " and " the tragic mulatto , " stereotypes enunciated and underlined most clearly by ...
... simply initiate the familiar story of racial transgression , he reenacts the even more familiar story of " the exotic primitive , ” “ the brute negro , " and " the tragic mulatto , " stereotypes enunciated and underlined most clearly by ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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