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Nella Larsen
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Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature.
Nella Larsen’s 1929 novella follows friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, two black women who pass as white. Their anxieties about passing culminate in tragedy, revealing the powerful repercussions of…
A captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, belonging, self-invention, and race set amidst the pealing boisterousness of the Jazz Age.
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A powerful and provocative novel about racial identity, Passing tells the story of two African-American women in 1920s New York who are reunited after many years. It explores themes of…
The landmark novel about the cultural meaning of race, first published in 1929, is a remarkably candid exploration of shifting racial and sexual boundaries which tells the story of an…
Originally published: New York: A.A. Knopf, 1928.
Set primarily in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s, the story centers around the reunion of two childhood friends--Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield--and their increasing fascination…
Now a major Netflix film starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and Alexander Skarsgard
Childhood friends Clare and Irene are both light-skinned enough to pass as white, but only one of…
A classic of women’s literature in a new, elegant edition.
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Two light-skinned African American women, friends since childhood, have chosen to embrace their identities and live their lives in completely different ways.
Nellallitea ‘Nella’ Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) (1891-1964) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels and a few short stories. Though her literary output was…
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Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in society, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence - until a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been passing for…
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels…
Helga Crane is a mixed-race teacher who struggles to find her identity in a world of racial crisis in the 1920s America. She is the daughter of a Danish mother…
Elisabeth Heck
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Bamberg, language: English, abstract: .. . the feeling of smallness…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Nella Larsen’s Passing , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
Nella Larsen’s novels Quicksand and Passing, published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, fell out of print and ere thus little known for many years. Now widely available and…
In this collection, readers rediscover one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance, whose career flamed brightly but briefly in the 1920s. Nella Larsen’s subject is the struggle…
Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing is hailed today as a significant literary work of Harlem Renaissance, though for several decades it, like all of her works, was out of print…
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A hardback omnibus of the complete fiction of one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance, including her most famous novel, Passing.
Throughout her short but brilliant literary…
Noted Harlem Renaissance scholar Carla Kaplan here offers a new edition of Nella Larsen’s Quicksand with an acute introduction comprising both biography and critical survey. With its careful scholarly scaffolding…
Written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance (the first sustained artistic movement by African Americans) and of Jim Crow (one of this cultural group's greatest obstacles), Nella Larsen's 1929…
Includes foreword by Mae Henderson and an introduction by Ntozake Shange. This book also includes commentary, notes and a reading group guide.
George Hutchinson
Born to a Danish seamstress and a West Indian cook, Larsen lived her life in the shadows of America’s racial divide. Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths surrounding her, and…
Kathrin Hoffmann
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: The 1850 United States Census offered for the…
Rabea Freund
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Seminar fur Englische Philologie), course: Jazz in America, 8 entries in…
Katharina Lurz
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,7, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: Passing by Nella…
Jacquelyn Y. McLendon
Jessie Fauset’s and Nella Larsen’s novels raise important questions about gender and race. This book looks at Fauset’s Plum Bun and Comedy: American Style and Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing…
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Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen, author of…
Quicksand and Passing are novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago…
Nella Larsen’s powerful classic novel on female racial identity with an introduction by Christa Holm Vogelius.
