{"id":61780,"date":"2021-10-10T20:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T20:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61780"},"modified":"2021-10-10T20:30:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T20:30:51","slug":"in-fanny-hursts-novel-delilahs-daughter-dreams-of-working-in-white-restaurants-achieves-her-dream-of-passing-and-marries-a-white-man-before-escaping-america-and-her-identity-in-the-1934-movie-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61780","title":{"rendered":"In Fanny Hurst&#8217;s novel, Delilah&#8217;s daughter dreams of working in white restaurants, achieves her dream of passing and marries a white man before escaping America and her identity. In the 1934 movie as well as Sirk&#8217;s version Delilah\/Annie&#8217;s daughter doesn&#8217;t get away so cleanly."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imitation_of_Life_(novel)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fanny Hurst&#8217;s novel<\/a>, Delilah&#8217;s daughter dreams of working in white restaurants, achieves her dream of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing<\/a> and marries a white man before escaping <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America<\/a> and her identity. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imitation_of_Life_(1934_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1934 movie<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imitation_of_Life_(1959_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sirk&#8217;s version<\/a> Delilah\/Annie&#8217;s daughter doesn&#8217;t get away so cleanly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rick McGinnis, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leave Them Wanting More: Douglas Sirk and <em>Imitation of Life<\/em><\/a>,\u201d <em>Steyn Online<\/em>, September 18, 2021. https:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/11701\/leave-them-wanting-more-douglas-sirk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Fanny Hurst&#8217;s novel, Delilah&#8217;s daughter dreams of working in white restaurants, achieves her dream of passing and marries a white man before escaping America and her identity. In the 1934 movie as well as Sirk&#8217;s version Delilah\/Annie&#8217;s daughter doesn&#8217;t get away so cleanly. Rick McGinnis, \u201cLeave Them Wanting More: Douglas Sirk and Imitation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9041,31996,31995,31994],"class_list":["post-61780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-douglas-sirk","tag-fanny-hurst","tag-rick-mcginnis","tag-steyn-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61781,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61780\/revisions\/61781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}