Passing Critics Flashcards
Cheryl A Wall
claire’s motives for passing are ambiguous.
Through she seeks the freedom to define herself, she also wants the material comforts the white world offers.
Broone Krieger
Life will punish the passer for breaking the rules
Jonathan Little
Unreliable vision and projections,
embodying writer and reader
Richard Bernstein
Homoercotic stand in Clare’s desire for Irenes company
Mary Wilson
Irenes grasp on her middle class structure is anchored by her husbands service profession
Mary Wilson 2
seeks to stabilize her membership in a strictly black bourgeois
Charles wilson
highly charged mixture of desire and dread
Charles Wilson 2
both possess a sense of pedigree that makes them feel superior to the main characters
Deborah E MCDonell
projecting her own developing passion for Clare onto Brian
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Clare ias an adventuress; Irene, the ordinary women, afraid of life…. turned berserker
Claudia Tate (tragic mullato)
The conventional Tragic Mulatto is a character who ‘passes’ and reveals pangs of anguish resulting from forsaking his or her black identity
Carla Kaplan
Larsen can depict characters who long for things they do not believe in and who believe in things which they find they do not want.
Jericho Williams
both Clare and Irene ‘pass as upstanding parents’ while bearing responsibility for parenting, and suffering in ways that oppress their own identities.
Jonathan Little 2 (brazil)
“Brazil symbolized a deflated
and ironic hope for an alternative
community that was more a romantic
dream than a reality”
Mary True
“who must herself have been through the conflicts of the characters she portrays.”- the phycological aspects of passing (tragic mulatto as well)
