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Series: Dover Literature: African American
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ISBN10: 0486437132
ISBN13: 9780486437132
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Oct 26 2004
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.64
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780486437132
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Oct 26 2004
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.64
Language: English
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.
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.
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