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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... women , the racial impersonator falls out of the club and becomes violently disaffected with the New Negro . In letters to his good friend Raymond , he expresses his strong desire to disgorge himself of the blackness he has taken in ...
... women , the racial impersonator falls out of the club and becomes violently disaffected with the New Negro . In letters to his good friend Raymond , he expresses his strong desire to disgorge himself of the blackness he has taken in ...
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... women dressing as men . Narratives of racial passing may have a shorter history then narratives of gender passing ... woman who acts too white . Ice Cube's video " Be True to the Gang " shows the rapper kidnapping and holding hostage the ...
... women dressing as men . Narratives of racial passing may have a shorter history then narratives of gender passing ... woman who acts too white . Ice Cube's video " Be True to the Gang " shows the rapper kidnapping and holding hostage the ...
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... Women of Color , edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua ; Women's Oppression Today : Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis , Michele Barrett ; and Feminist Theory : From Margin to Center , bell hooks . 13. To recent studies that ...
... Women of Color , edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua ; Women's Oppression Today : Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis , Michele Barrett ; and Feminist Theory : From Margin to Center , bell hooks . 13. To recent studies that ...
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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