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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... Written two decades after " Melanctha , " McKay and Van Vechten's characters , plot , and descriptions work to unsteady the old binary of black and white . Much of the conscious and unconscious attention to color resulted in narratives ...
... Written two decades after " Melanctha , " McKay and Van Vechten's characters , plot , and descriptions work to unsteady the old binary of black and white . Much of the conscious and unconscious attention to color resulted in narratives ...
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... written by African - Americans , which Du Bois may have read , both made substantial use of the passing theme ... written a few years after The Souls of Black Folk , James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiog- raphy of an Ex - Colored Man ...
... written by African - Americans , which Du Bois may have read , both made substantial use of the passing theme ... written a few years after The Souls of Black Folk , James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiog- raphy of an Ex - Colored Man ...
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... written pass , signed by the master or some one in authority ... ( 36 ) Although Craft does not explicitly connect the written pass and the visible pass of skin color , he reminds us that " every coloured person's complexion is prima ...
... written pass , signed by the master or some one in authority ... ( 36 ) Although Craft does not explicitly connect the written pass and the visible pass of skin color , he reminds us that " every coloured person's complexion is prima ...
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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African-American ambiguity American argues beginning black and white blackface Bois Bois's Brown Butterfly Carl Van Vechten chapter characters Christmas's Clare Clotel color line construction created Crying Game culture dark despite discourse Doc Hines dramatic Ellen escape explore fantasy Faulkner Ferber's fiction film Fitzgerald Frances Harper gender passing genre Glazer and Moynihan Harlem Renaissance highlight Home to Harlem Hwang identity Infants of Spring interest Irene Jazz Singer Joe Christmas Kol Nidre Light in August literature Magnolia mask McKay meaning metaphor Miles For Freedom minstrelsy movie narrator Negro nomenclature passing figure passing narratives perhaps play plot problem protagonist question race racial passing racialist racist Raymond reader representations Running a Thousand satire Schuyler sexuality Show Boat singing slave stereotypes story struggle suggest theme Thurman tragic mulatto University Press W. E. B. Du Bois white authors William Craft William Wells Brown writing York