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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... symbol of the mulatto , when his own metaphors threaten to overlap . One ever feels his twoness , - -an American , a Negro ; two souls , two thoughts , two unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body , whose dogged ...
... symbol of the mulatto , when his own metaphors threaten to overlap . One ever feels his twoness , - -an American , a Negro ; two souls , two thoughts , two unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body , whose dogged ...
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... symbol that might have been imagined at this particular point in the changing world of African- Americans ? Perhaps Du Bois , like Irene in Passing , thought it the " kindest thing not to ask ? " Or perhaps Du Bois's notion of double ...
... symbol that might have been imagined at this particular point in the changing world of African- Americans ? Perhaps Du Bois , like Irene in Passing , thought it the " kindest thing not to ask ? " Or perhaps Du Bois's notion of double ...
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... symbol of the novel ; and Magnolia Hawks , who at an early age was baptized in the " yellow river , " is by extension the mistress symbol.28 But , to complicate our description , this book , perhaps Ferber's most symbol - laden novel ...
... symbol of the novel ; and Magnolia Hawks , who at an early age was baptized in the " yellow river , " is by extension the mistress symbol.28 But , to complicate our description , this book , perhaps Ferber's most symbol - laden novel ...
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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