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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Pagina 52
... stereotype , of his seven stereotypes that white authors traffic in , to be the one most " doomed to unfortunate longevity " ( 158 ) . Shortly after Sterling Brown's 1933 essay , the passing figure began to fade from African- American ...
... stereotype , of his seven stereotypes that white authors traffic in , to be the one most " doomed to unfortunate longevity " ( 158 ) . Shortly after Sterling Brown's 1933 essay , the passing figure began to fade from African- American ...
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... stereotypes , symbols , and signs . In his introduction to this book , Lippman reminds us that " the real environment is altogether too big , too complex , and too fleeting for direct acquaintance . We are not equipped to deal with so ...
... stereotypes , symbols , and signs . In his introduction to this book , Lippman reminds us that " the real environment is altogether too big , too complex , and too fleeting for direct acquaintance . We are not equipped to deal with so ...
Pagina 99
... stereotype of the tragic mulatto , undoubtedly helped sales of both the reissued book and the John Stahl film . But ... stereotypes is " the black rapist . " But perhaps the many actual " cases , " or rather the many fabrications of ...
... stereotype of the tragic mulatto , undoubtedly helped sales of both the reissued book and the John Stahl film . But ... stereotypes is " the black rapist . " But perhaps the many actual " cases , " or rather the many fabrications of ...
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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