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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... stand alone and test my ability to praise thoroughly . The thanks that I owe to Todd Davis , for example , requires more words and more than words : **** To my adopted family , Alan Warshawsky , Ned Asta , Zelik Mintz , Yvonne Fischer ...
... stand alone and test my ability to praise thoroughly . The thanks that I owe to Todd Davis , for example , requires more words and more than words : **** To my adopted family , Alan Warshawsky , Ned Asta , Zelik Mintz , Yvonne Fischer ...
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... stands as a refutation of the unbridge- able distance between " black " and " white . " This figure , often defined by its ... stand in for race . But it is not the terms themselves that I am interested in but the act of revision itself ...
... stands as a refutation of the unbridge- able distance between " black " and " white . " This figure , often defined by its ... stand in for race . But it is not the terms themselves that I am interested in but the act of revision itself ...
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... stand in contrast to " straight narrative , " by which Kaufmann undoubtedly means a mimetic rather than a symbolic or stylized narrative . But this terse explana- tion is not the heart of Kaufmann's argument . " The film squirms under ...
... stand in contrast to " straight narrative , " by which Kaufmann undoubtedly means a mimetic rather than a symbolic or stylized narrative . But this terse explana- tion is not the heart of Kaufmann's argument . " The film squirms under ...
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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