Tag: Women’s Studies

  • The Shadow of Lynching in Nella Larsen’s Passing Women’s Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal Published online: 2017-02-22 pages 1-22 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2017.1285767 Kangyl Ko Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea Since Deborah E. McDowell’s groundbreaking essay on the representation of black female sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), many scholars have discussed how the intersectionality of race, class,…

  • White women’s complicity and the taboo: Faulkner’s layered critique of the “miscegenation complex” Women’s Studies Volume 22, Issue 4 (1993) pages 497-506 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1993.9978998 Karen M. Andrews Kobe College, Japan In Faulkner’s social milieu, the proscription against miscegenation between white women and black men was so deeply ingrained as to be “common sense.” White male…