The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American LiteraturePeter Lang, 1996 - 142 pages 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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... play entitled The Jazz Singer . The film , an adaptation of the play , was written by Alfred A. Cohn and is also presented in this text , though I will at times refer to subsequent changes made in the actual filming of the movie . 18 ...
... play entitled The Jazz Singer . The film , an adaptation of the play , was written by Alfred A. Cohn and is also presented in this text , though I will at times refer to subsequent changes made in the actual filming of the movie . 18 ...
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... play of evil in the name of satire . 26. Walter Benn Michaels provides an interesting discussion of Fitzgerald's ... play itself , was attacked : “ Since the play is based on the book , the play has to be racist . " The following reading ...
... play of evil in the name of satire . 26. Walter Benn Michaels provides an interesting discussion of Fitzgerald's ... play itself , was attacked : “ Since the play is based on the book , the play has to be racist . " The following reading ...
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... play . Audiences wanted to enter the film emotionally . Reviewers struggled to make sense of the play's success and the film's failure . For The New Republic , Stanley Kaufmann writes : " I thought that a good deal of the play's success ...
... play . Audiences wanted to enter the film emotionally . Reviewers struggled to make sense of the play's success and the film's failure . For The New Republic , Stanley Kaufmann writes : " I thought that a good deal of the play's success ...
Contents
An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
Copyright | |
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