Description
Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable. -- Alice Walker
A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel. -- The Saturday Review of Literature
Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence-until she is shaken out of it by a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been passing for white. An important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen was the first African-American woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Her fictional portraits of women seeking their identities through a fog of racial confusion were informed by her own Danish-West Indian parentage, and Passing offers fascinating psychological insights into issues of race and gender.
Author: Nella Larsen
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 10/26/2004
Pages: 94
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.64h x 5.52w x 0.22d
ISBN13: 9780486437132
ISBN10: 0486437132
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women
- Fiction | Literary
A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel. -- The Saturday Review of Literature
Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence-until she is shaken out of it by a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been passing for white. An important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen was the first African-American woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Her fictional portraits of women seeking their identities through a fog of racial confusion were informed by her own Danish-West Indian parentage, and Passing offers fascinating psychological insights into issues of race and gender.
Author: Nella Larsen
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 10/26/2004
Pages: 94
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.64h x 5.52w x 0.22d
ISBN13: 9780486437132
ISBN10: 0486437132
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
One of the shining stars of the Harlem Renaissance, Nellallitea Nella Larsen (April 13, 1891-March 30, 1964) left behind only two novels and a handful of short stories -- but Larsen's remarkable voice and vision has ensured her place in literary history.
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