Clare Kendry's "True" Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen's Passing

Clare Kendry's "True" Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen's Passing

Nella Larsen's "Passing" is re-examined as a work concerned with the simultaneous representation and construction of race and class within a circumscribed community. The character Clare Kendry is a representative of a different ideology locked in a struggle for dominance with the char...

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Veröffentlicht in:Callaloo 1992-10, Vol.15 (4), p.1053-1065
1. Verfasser: Brody, Jennifer DeVere
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
African American literature
African Americans
American culture
American literature
Black people
Bourgeois
Class conflict
Hair
Ideology
Larsen, Nella
Literary criticism
Narratives
Novels
Passing
Race
Social classes
White people
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Zusammenfassung:Nella Larsen's "Passing" is re-examined as a work concerned with the simultaneous representation and construction of race and class within a circumscribed community. The character Clare Kendry is a representative of a different ideology locked in a struggle for dominance with the character Irene Redfield.
ISSN:0161-2492
1080-6512
DOI:10.2307/2931920