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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... understand what they have done for me . Countless others , Karl Niklas , Jonathan Smith , and Charu Malik , for example , delighted me with intellectual offerings that came at the right moments . Michael Loader solved the problems that ...
... understand what they have done for me . Countless others , Karl Niklas , Jonathan Smith , and Charu Malik , for example , delighted me with intellectual offerings that came at the right moments . Michael Loader solved the problems that ...
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... understanding of Thurman's critique of the Harlem Renaissance , but first let us understand why there is no development in any of the black characters . In many ways , these characters cannot escape the destiny of race , or to use ...
... understanding of Thurman's critique of the Harlem Renaissance , but first let us understand why there is no development in any of the black characters . In many ways , these characters cannot escape the destiny of race , or to use ...
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... passing plot in the Faulkner oeuvre , as a high watermark in narratives concerned with race , we must first understand how Joe Christmas issues out of past narratives . Although it is questionable whether Faulkner 98 The Passing Figure.
... passing plot in the Faulkner oeuvre , as a high watermark in narratives concerned with race , we must first understand how Joe Christmas issues out of past narratives . Although it is questionable whether Faulkner 98 The Passing Figure.
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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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