The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature by Juda Bennett

The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature

Juda Bennett

142 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

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"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 socia...

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