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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... tell the story . Light in August repeats this story of Joe's conception and finds other ways as well to keep Joe's indeterminate " race " in our minds . Belief , not fact , creates the racial subject . After the fall of his daughter ...
... tell the story . Light in August repeats this story of Joe's conception and finds other ways as well to keep Joe's indeterminate " race " in our minds . Belief , not fact , creates the racial subject . After the fall of his daughter ...
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... tell and by the most ridiculous means , finger - nails , palms of hands , shapes of ears , teeth , and other equally silly rot . ( 150 ) Skin and eye color are noticeably absent from this explicit list , while the gaze of the narrator ...
... tell and by the most ridiculous means , finger - nails , palms of hands , shapes of ears , teeth , and other equally silly rot . ( 150 ) Skin and eye color are noticeably absent from this explicit list , while the gaze of the narrator ...
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... Tell a Free Story : The First Century of Afro - American A utobiography , 1760-1865 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1986 . Appiah , Anthony . " The Uncompleted Argument : Du Bois and the Illusion of Race " in " Race ...
... Tell a Free Story : The First Century of Afro - American A utobiography , 1760-1865 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1986 . Appiah , Anthony . " The Uncompleted Argument : Du Bois and the Illusion of Race " in " Race ...
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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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