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UNINA9910456689703321 |
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Titolo |
Passing in the works of Charles W. Chesnutt [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Susan Prothro Wright and Ernestine Pickens Glass |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-62103-605-7 |
1-282-50301-4 |
9786612503016 |
1-60473-418-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (147 p.) |
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Collana |
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Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WrightSusan Prothro |
GlassErnestine Pickens |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Passing (Identity) |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Charles W. Chesnutt's Historical Imagination; Signifying the Other: Chesnutt's "Methods of Teaching"; On Flags and Fraternities: Lessons in History in Charles Chesnutt's "Po' Sandy"; Passing as Narrative and Textual Strategy in Charles Chesnutt's "The Passing of Grandison"; The Dream of History: Memory and the Unconscious in Charles Chesnutt's The House behind the Cedars; In the Wake of D. W. Griffith's: The Birth of a Nation Chesnutt's Paul Marchand, F.M.C. as Command Performance; Performing Race: Mixed-Race Characters in the Novels of Charles Chesnutt |
A Question of Passing or a Question of Conscience: Toward Resolving the Ending of Mandy Oxendine""They Were All Colored to the Life": Historicizing "Whiteness" in Evelyn's Husband; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt is a collection that reevaluates Chesnutt's deft manipulation of the ""passing"" theme to expand understanding of the author's fiction and nonfiction. Nine contributors apply a variety of theories---including intertextual, signifying/discourse analysis, narratological, formal, psychoanalytical, new historical, reader response, and performative frameworks---to |
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