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Race Passing And American Individualism by Kathleen Pfeiffer is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Race Passing And American Individualism about?
Pfeiffer studies the fiction of William Dean Howells, Frances E.W. Harper, Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen. She supports the ambiguous theory that the African-American characters found in these six authors' works are reinventing themselves by passing as white.
Who reads Race Passing And American Individualism?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kathleen Pfeiffer
- Publisher
- Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781558493773
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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