Passing Larsen Nella Paperback
Passing Larsen Nella Paperback Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable. -- The Saturday Review of LiteratureMarried to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem's…
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Passing Larsen Nella Paperback
Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable. -- The Saturday Review of LiteratureMarried 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. -- Alice WalkerA work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel.
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 An important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen was the first African-American woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.