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Crossing the line :racial passing in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture
- 作者: Wald, Gayle,
- 出版: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press 2000.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) :illustrations.
- 叢書名: New Americanists
- 標題: Racially mixed people in literature. , Prose américaine Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique. , Etnisch bewustzijn. , Passing (Identity) , 1900-1999 , Noirs américains dans la littérature. , Auteurs noirs américainsHistoire et critique. , Race dans la littérature. , Passing (Identity) United States -- History -- 20th century. , American prose literature African American authors -- History and criticism. , History. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Rassenverhoudingen. , Prose américaine 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique. , Prose américaine , Passing (Identity) in literature. , Group identity in literature. , History and criticism. , American prose literature. , American prose literature , Race in literature. , Letterkunde. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Histoire et critique. , Electronic books. , History , American prose literature 20th century -- History and criticism. , American prose literature African American authors. , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- African American. , Histoire , African American authors. , African American authorsHistory and criticism. , African Americans in literature. , Passing (Identité) dans la littérature. , Identité collective dans la littérature. , United States. , Passing (Identité) États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. , Passing (Identité) , AmericanAfrican American.
- ISBN: 0822380927 , 9780822380924
- ISBN: 0822325152 , 9780822325154 , 0822324792 , 9780822324799
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- 附註: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index. Introduction : Race, passing, and cultural representation -- Home again : racial negotiations in modernist African American passing narratives -- Mezz Mezzrow and the voluntary negro blues -- Boundaries lost and found : racial passing and cinematic representation, circa 1949 -- "I'm through with passing" : postpassing narratives in Black popular literary culture -- "A most disagreeable mirror" : reflections of white identity in Black like me -- Epilogue : Passing, "color blindness," and contemporary discourses of race and identity.
- 摘要: Examines constructions of racial identity through the exploration of passing narratives including Black Like Me and forties jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow's memoir Really the Blues.
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- 系統號: 005307871
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As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial discourse. To erode race’s authority, Gayle Wald argues, we must understand how race defines and yet fails to represent identity. She thus uses cultural narratives of passing to illuminate both the contradictions of race and the deployment of such contradictions for a variety of needs, interests, and desires. Wald begins her reading of twentieth-century passing narratives by analyzing works by African American writers James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen, showing how they use the “passing plot” to explore the negotiation of identity, agency, and freedom within the context of their protagonists' restricted choices. She then examines the 1946 autobiography Really the Blues, which details the transformation of Milton Mesirow, middle-class son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, into Mezz Mezzrow, jazz musician and self-described “voluntary Negro.” Turning to the 1949 films Pinky and Lost Boundaries, which imagine African American citizenship within class-specific protocols of race and gender, she interrogates the complicated representation of racial passing in a visual medium. Her investigation of “post-passing” testimonials in postwar African American magazines, which strove to foster black consumerism while constructing “positive” images of black achievement and affluence in the postwar years, focuses on neglected texts within the archives of black popular culture. Finally, after a look at liberal contradictions of John Howard Griffin’s 1961 auto-ethnography Black Like Me, Wald concludes with an epilogue that considers the idea of passing in the context of the recent discourse of “color blindness.” Wald’s analysis of the moral, political, and theoretical dimensions of racial passing makes Crossing the Line important reading as we approach the twenty-first century. Her engaging and dynamic book will be of particular interest to scholars of American studies, African American studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism.
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