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Nella Larsen
1) Passing
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nella Larsen's second novel, Passing, first published in 1929, is a fascinating exploration of race and identity set amidst the blossoming Harlem Renaissance. Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 411
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 252 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Throughout her [...] literary career, Nella Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the Black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belonged. Passing, Larsen's best-known work, is a disturbing story about the unraveling lives of two childhood friends, one of whom turns her back on her past and marries a white racist. Just as disquieting is the portrait in Quicksand of biracial Helga Crane, who is...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Quicksand, was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman's need for sexual fulfilment balanced against respectability and acceptance amid a deeply religious society. The novel is deeply pessimistic and ends as the protagonist is sucked into a life that is at odds with all that she had desired.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Anchor Books ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 278 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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, "Passing" and "Quicksand", as well as all three of her published short stories; "Freedom," "The Wrong Man", and "Sanctuary". "Quicksand" was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman's need for sexual fulfilment balanced against respectability and acceptance...
Series
Library of America volume 217
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
867 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's Cane (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer's experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Recognized on publication as a groundbreaking work of literary modernism, Toomer's masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles. Claude McKay's Home to...
Series
Library of America volume 217, 218
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
2 volumes (867, 848 pages) ; 21 cm, in case 22 cm.
Language
English
