Nella Larsen: Passing
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Author: Nella Larsen
Number of Pages: 112 pages
Published Date: 26 Nov 2004
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780486437132
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"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."