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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... wrote novels that make significant use of the passing figure . The idea , fantasy , or threat of passing also is of various importance in works by Countee Cullen , Claude McKay , Thomas Dixon , Frances Harper , William Craft , Richard ...
... wrote novels that make significant use of the passing figure . The idea , fantasy , or threat of passing also is of various importance in works by Countee Cullen , Claude McKay , Thomas Dixon , Frances Harper , William Craft , Richard ...
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... wrote Show Boat . ( A Peculiar Treasure 277 ) But for all of Ferber's continuous and boastful self - promotion , in two lengthy autobiographies , she confesses a serious regret for Show Boat , which told the story of the South though it ...
... wrote Show Boat . ( A Peculiar Treasure 277 ) But for all of Ferber's continuous and boastful self - promotion , in two lengthy autobiographies , she confesses a serious regret for Show Boat , which told the story of the South though it ...
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... wrote Infants of Spring , one of the best written and most readable novels of the period , to bury the renaissance once and for all . 33 Thurman's novel , which contains veiled references to many of the black artists of the period ...
... wrote Infants of Spring , one of the best written and most readable novels of the period , to bury the renaissance once and for all . 33 Thurman's novel , which contains veiled references to many of the black artists of the period ...
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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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