Full Description
The new edition of The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination offers a fresh perspective on this trail blazing scholarship, and the singular importance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a challenge to the racial hegemony of biological white supremacy. Fitzgerald convincinglyand boldly shows how racial passing by light-skinned Black individuals becomes the most fascinating literary trope associated with democracy and the enduring desire for the American Dream.
Contents
Acknowledgments - Preface to the First Edition - Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction: Black Bucks Being as White as They Wanna Be: The Historical and Theoretical Roots of Black People Passing for White - "The Circular Ruins" of Passing: Race, Class, and Gender in Charles Waddell Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars -
The Improvisational and Faustian Performance in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man - The Tragic Black Buck: Jay Gatsby's Passing in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby - Joe Christmas, a Black Buck with Attitude: The Virulent Nexus of Race and Color in William Faulkner's Light in August - Conclusion - Bibliography
