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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... trouble . While W. E. B. Du Bois was fighting to revalue blackness , Schuyler was denying its very existence . Nonetheless , Du Bois , who was at times criticized and lampooned by Schuyler , said the following of this now overlooked ...
... trouble . While W. E. B. Du Bois was fighting to revalue blackness , Schuyler was denying its very existence . Nonetheless , Du Bois , who was at times criticized and lampooned by Schuyler , said the following of this now overlooked ...
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... trouble mulatto , Clare , Passing displays its anxiety in expressing the problem of color . The passing figure , under Larson's handling , becomes not the embodiment of a civil war between black and white , but the symbol of the war ...
... trouble mulatto , Clare , Passing displays its anxiety in expressing the problem of color . The passing figure , under Larson's handling , becomes not the embodiment of a civil war between black and white , but the symbol of the war ...
Pagina 122
... Trouble . See particularly note nine on page 151 . 12. There have been many recent works that have explored the intersection of race and gender . In addition to studies that continue to be published in this area , it is still useful to ...
... Trouble . See particularly note nine on page 151 . 12. There have been many recent works that have explored the intersection of race and gender . In addition to studies that continue to be published in this area , it is still useful to ...
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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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