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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... tradition , although they frequently pursue other questions of origins and sources ( spirituals , work songs , and even classical music ) , should tell us much . Although the minstrelsy is hardly a glorious tradition with which to be ...
... tradition , although they frequently pursue other questions of origins and sources ( spirituals , work songs , and even classical music ) , should tell us much . Although the minstrelsy is hardly a glorious tradition with which to be ...
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... tradition , it also holds racial meaning in abeyance . We should recall that histories of the minstrelsy often elided the racial significance , or origins , of this tradition . So too does Jakie Rabinowitz , in his transformation to ...
... tradition , it also holds racial meaning in abeyance . We should recall that histories of the minstrelsy often elided the racial significance , or origins , of this tradition . So too does Jakie Rabinowitz , in his transformation to ...
Pagina 88
... tradition of erasing the female subject . In fairness , this event was not one that Lippmann witnessed in person , nor do we know whether it actually involved only male immigrants , but Lippmann does not heed his larger caution against ...
... tradition of erasing the female subject . In fairness , this event was not one that Lippmann witnessed in person , nor do we know whether it actually involved only male immigrants , but Lippmann does not heed his larger caution against ...
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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