{"id":14778,"date":"2011-07-07T21:33:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14778"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:49:10","slug":"white-skin-white-masks-the-creole-woman-and-the-narrative-of-racial-passing-in-martinique-and-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14778","title":{"rendered":"White Skin, White Masks: The Creole Woman and the Narrative of Racial Passing in Martinique and Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

White Skin, White Masks: The Creole Woman and the Narrative of Racial Passing in Martinique and Louisiana<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
\n2006
\n83 pages<\/p>\n

Michael James Rulon<\/strong><\/p>\n

A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Curriculum of Comparative Literature<\/em><\/p>\n

Through an examination of two Creole<\/a> passing<\/a> subjects from literary passing narratives of the twentieth century, this thesis simultaneously treats two problems that have been largely overlooked by contemporary scholarship: the role of the Creole racial identity in the genre of the passing narrative, as well as the possibility of racial passing within the context of a Creole society. In Walter White\u2019s<\/a> 1926 novel, Flight<\/em>, and Mayotte Cap\u00e9cia\u2019s<\/a> 1950 novel, La n\u00e9gresse blanche<\/a><\/em>, the protagonists\u2019 difficulties in negotiating a stable racial identity reveal the inherent weakness of the racial binary that is essential to the very notion of racial passing, and they also show that Creoleness has failed to establish itself as a stable racial identity in the societies represented in both novels.<\/p>\n

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