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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... took an interest in the baggage , became somewhat uneasy , and went into my wife's room , and said to her , " Do you know the dark man downstairs ? " " Yes , he is my husband . " " Oh ! I mean the black man the nigger ? " " I quite ...
... took an interest in the baggage , became somewhat uneasy , and went into my wife's room , and said to her , " Do you know the dark man downstairs ? " " Yes , he is my husband . " " Oh ! I mean the black man the nigger ? " " I quite ...
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... took the well - publicized differences between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois , as well as greater sense of the dividedness of Negroes and the Negro , to allow for a different story of passing to be told . Passing brings us ...
... took the well - publicized differences between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois , as well as greater sense of the dividedness of Negroes and the Negro , to allow for a different story of passing to be told . Passing brings us ...
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... took much of the hope out of Harlem and Harlem's Renaissance , Infants of Spring attempts the impossible : to understand the material forces that constructed Harlem separate from those representational forces also operating . In his ...
... took much of the hope out of Harlem and Harlem's Renaissance , Infants of Spring attempts the impossible : to understand the material forces that constructed Harlem separate from those representational forces also operating . In his ...
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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