The Theme of “Passing” in the Novels of James Weldon Johnson and Nella Larsen.
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2014-04
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The depiction of the experience of a very fair-skinned person of some ―coloured‖ background who successfully passes into
white society was a recurrent theme in early African American writings. In this paper an attempt is made to look at, and
compare and contrast, two African American novels, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (l912) and Passing (1929)
which deal with the theme of passing, written by James Weldon Johnson and Nella Larsen, a Black man and a Black woman
writer. This paper analyses how the two novels reject the rules of colour division, rules which demand that one accepts a
position within a predetermined hierarchy.
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Race, colour line, Black, Passing
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Babu P Dinesh. The Theme of “Passing” in the Novels of James Weldon Johnson and Nella Larsen. International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies. 2014 Apr; 1(4): 53-58.