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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... mulatto , or the tragic mulatto . Nancy Tischler's description of the tragic mulatto is instructive : Supposedly the black blood and the white blood stage a gory civil war in the mind and body of the mulatto , much as the medieval ...
... mulatto , or the tragic mulatto . Nancy Tischler's description of the tragic mulatto is instructive : Supposedly the black blood and the white blood stage a gory civil war in the mind and body of the mulatto , much as the medieval ...
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... tragic mulatto / passer becomes complicated by her desire for Clare's death . No other passing narrative complicates the tragic death in quite this way , making Irene more the focus than Clare . Her quaking knees gave way under her ...
... tragic mulatto / passer becomes complicated by her desire for Clare's death . No other passing narrative complicates the tragic death in quite this way , making Irene more the focus than Clare . Her quaking knees gave way under her ...
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... tragic mulatto's future by eliminating her . In this way Larson's Passing doubles the evasion by death of the tragic mulatto , at the same time that it revises the unambiguous ending familiar to us . This ending may suggest Larson's ...
... tragic mulatto's future by eliminating her . In this way Larson's Passing doubles the evasion by death of the tragic mulatto , at the same time that it revises the unambiguous ending familiar to us . This ending may suggest Larson's ...
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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