Racial Passing: A Comparative Reading of Jessie Fauset’s by Sandra Radtke

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By Sandra Radtke

Thesis (M.A.) from the 12 months 2006 within the topic American reviews - Literature, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical college, 36 entries within the bibliography, language: English, summary: within the following, i want to offer a short summary of my thesis. mainly, i need to discover 3 significant novels of the Harlem Renaissance - Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) in addition to Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun (1929). As them all care for racial passing, this factor stands out as the subject of the 1st half which will supply an perception into the problem. the main target could be on black-to-white passing, that is essentially a cultural phenomenon of the USA. After a definition of the time period with the aid of a number of uncomplicated typologies, i want to continue to concomitants like secrecy, the query of guilt and the white people’s view on passing. in this case, the passer needs to be the focal point of nearer exam, via an exploration of legislation and people ideals evolving round the mulatto because the regular passing determine. After this theoretical embedding, i'm going to take a more in-depth examine passing in literature together with an research of the emergence of the phenomenon as a literary style. also, the passing determine in literature, the “tragic mulatto”, is to be investigated. Concluding, a bankruptcy on different kinds of passing will be further for the sake of completeness.
In the second one half, those theoretical cognitions are meant to be hired to discover an method of the novels which are going to be tested in regards to the issues that evolve round passing, i.e. the secrecy concerned, the go back domestic and the tragic demise of the heroine. Juda Bennett’s record of similarities between passing novels is meant to supply a framework the following. Afterwards, different kinds of passing depicted within the novels will come to the fore together with an exam of racism in reference to sexism.

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