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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bennett, Juda, 1955- Passing figure. New York : Peter Lang, ©1996 (OCoLC)645838500 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Juda Bennett |
ISBN: | 0820431141 9780820431147 0820442658 9780820442655 |
OCLC Number: | 33983590 |
Description: | viii, 142 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | An Introduction to Passing -- Black No More: Nomenclature, Metaphor, and Narrative -- Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom: Theme to Genre -- Show Boat and Showboating: How White People Pass -- M. Butterfly in Yoknapatawpha: Recent Trends in Passing -- Afterward: The Suture. |
Series Title: | Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.), v. 6. |
Responsibility: | Juda Bennett. |
Abstract:
How and when does literature most effectively uncover race to be a metaphor? 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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