Passing - Softcover

Larsen, Nella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1946963070 ISBN 13: 9781946963079

Verlag: Albatross Publishers, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Facsimile of 1929 Edition. Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clare’s childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, but refuses to acknowledge the racism that continues to constrict her family’s happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others—and the secret fears they have buried within themselves. Critics have argued that through its attention to the way "passing" unhinges ideas of race, class, and gender, the novel opens spaces for the creation of new, self-generated identities. Since the late 20th century, Passing has received renewed attention from scholars because of its close examination of racial and sexual ambiguities and liminal spaces. It has achieved canonical status in many American universities.

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Nella Larsen (1891-1964) was an American novelist, nurse, librarian, and one of the most significant writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Chicago to a Danish mother and a father of Afro-Caribbean descent, Larsen lived across several cultural worlds, an experience that deeply shaped her fiction's concern with race, class, gender, belonging, passing, respectability, and social exclusion. Her two novels, Quicksand and Passing, are now regarded as major works of twentieth-century American literature and among the most important novels by a Black woman writer of the modernist period.Larsen's fiction is admired for its psychological subtlety, formal restraint, and sharp understanding of the pressures placed on women who move between racial, social, and cultural identities. Quicksand, published in 1928, introduced Helga Crane, a heroine whose restlessness, intelligence, and refusal of easy belonging give the novel its lasting power. Larsen followed it with Passing in 1929, another landmark Harlem Renaissance novel concerned with race, identity, desire, and social performance. Though her literary career was brief, Larsen's work has become central to the study of African American literature, women's writing, Harlem Renaissance fiction, modernism, and classic American fiction.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Albatross Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1946963070
• ISBN 13: 9781946963079
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 100
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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