Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: William Faulkner
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he key question posed herein is: What forms of privilege enable a reader to relinquish her attachment to paranoia, suspicion, and vigilance; to opt for openness rather than guardedness, submission rather than aggression (21)? Narratives of racial passing provide one answer to that question.
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This talk explores the phenomenon of ‘passing-for-white’ as represented in the work of transatlantic literary women ranging from Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen to contemporary British writer Helen Oyeyemi and asks why passing continues to inspire women writers across the West.
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This essay argues that William Faulkner’s Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! use the device of the narrative enigma to effectively tell stories in which the cultural practice of ‘passing for white’ in the United States under the Jim Crow system is strongly suggested.
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Postcolonial Palimpsests: Entwined Colonialisms and the Conflicted Representation of Charles Bon in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! ariel: A Review of International English Literature Volume 47, Number 4, October 2016 pages 1-23 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2016.0044 Jenna Grace Sciuto, Assistant Professor, English/Communications Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts This essay argues that Charles Bon in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!…
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Contested Identities: Racial Indeterminacy and Law in the American Novel, 1900-1942 University of Connecticut 2014-05-08 Rebecca S. Nisetich In Contested Identities, I chart the path of the legal and literary discourses on racial identity, codified by the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision and culturally ascendant in the early decades of the twentieth century. In this…
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Unwed Mothers, Race, and Transgression in William Faulkner’s Novels McKendree University Scholars Journal Lebanon, Illinois Issue 24, Winter 2015 16 pages Mindy Allen As a modernist writer, William Faulkner is conflicted with the autonomy he can allow for his female characters, particularly unmarried mothers. Ideology about women during the early twentieth century, including the debates…
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Violent Disruptions: Richard Wright and William Faulkner’s Racial Imaginations Harvard University September 2013 177 pages Linda Doris Mariah Chavers A dissertation presented to The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of African and African American Studies Violent Disruptions contends…
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Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940 Louisiana State University Press January 2015 240 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780807157848 Shawn Salvant, Assistant Professor of English and African American University of Connecticut The invocation of blood—as both an image and a concept—has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In…
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Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi 2002 320 pages 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-90-420-1428-2 / 90-420-1428-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-90-420-1418-3 / 90-420-1418-0 Edited by: Teresa Hubel, Associate Professor of English Huron University College in London, Ontario Neil Brooks, Associate Professor of English Huron University College at Western University, London, Ontario Contents Neil Brooks…