White skin, white masks: the Creole woman and the narrative of racial passing in Martinique and Louisiana Public Deposited

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  • March 21, 2019
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  • Rulon, Michael James
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Program
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  • Through an examination of two Creole passing subject from literary passing narratives of the twentieth century, this thesis simultaneously treats two problems that have been largely overlooked by contemporary scholarship: the role of the Creole racial identity in the genre of the passing narrative, as well as the possibility of racial passing within the context of a Creole society. In Walter White's 1926 novel, Flight, and Mayotte Capécia's 1950 novel, La négresse blanche, the protagonists' difficulties in negotiating a stable racial identity reveal the inherent weakness of the racial binary that is essential to the very notion of racial passing, and they also show that Creoleness has failed to establish itself as a stable racial identity in the societies represented in both novels.
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