Inside the Color Line: Reading Biracialism in Twentieth Century American Culture |
Inside the Color Line: Reading Biracialism in Twentieth Century American Culture
State University of New York, Albany
2005
191 pages
Publication ID: AAT 3181801
ISBN: 9780542221538
Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English
University of Washington
A Dissertation Submitted to the University at Albany, State University of New York in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (College of Arts & Sciences, Department of English)
This project is conceived as an exploration of myth and society with regard to racial ambiguity in twentieth century literature and film. It attempts to trace “mixed” racialism as it acts as an alibi for cultural phenomena including those surrounding the (truth and fiction of the) color line. Through an analysis of various moments in twentieth century American culture, this project seeks to demonstrate that racial mixedness has and continues to function as a sign under which the aporia of national self-definition finds expression
Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Mulatto/a and the Task of Representation
- Chapter One: Passing Confrontations with Black Masculinity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Flight
- Chapter Two: Canary in a Coal Mine: Negotiating/Narrating Difference through Racial Mixedness in Caucasia and “Recitatif”
- Chapter Three: A Cross Between Reason and Feeling: Questions of Emergence and Textuality in The Intuitionist, Shadows and Cane
- Chapter Four: “The Thing Became Real”: Selfhood, the Image and Misrecognition in Quicksand and Mixing Nia
- Bibliograpy
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