Passing - Couverture souple

Larsen, Nella

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1604599944 ISBN 13 : 9781604599947

Editeur : Wilder Publications, 2022

Synopsis

Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed.Passing confronts the reality of racial passing. The novel focuses on two childhood friends Clare and Irene, both of whom are light skinned enough to pass as white, who have reconnected with one another after many years apart. Clare has chosen to pass while Irene has embraced her racial heritage and become an important member of her community. The Novel examines how people pass on many different levels and in many different ways. Some forms of passing are perfectly acceptable while others can lead to disaster.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nella Larsen was an American novelist, nurse, librarian, and one of the major literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Born Nellallitea Walker in Chicago, she drew on her own complex experiences of race, class, gender, education, and social belonging in fiction of unusual psychological subtlety. Larsen worked as a nurse and later as a librarian before becoming part of the literary and intellectual culture associated with Harlem in the 1920s, where Black writers, artists, editors, critics, and publishers helped reshape American literature.Larsen published two novels, Quicksand and Passing, both of which are now central works of African American modernism and Harlem Renaissance literature. Her fiction is known for its spare style, emotional restraint, social precision, and acute treatment of mixed-race identity, female interior life, respectability, sexuality, alienation, and the pressures placed upon Black women navigating white-dominated institutions and Black middle-class expectations. Though her published literary career was brief, her work has had a lasting influence on studies of race, gender, modernism, and American fiction.After leaving the literary world, Larsen returned to nursing, and for many years her reputation was quieter than that of some of her contemporaries. Later twentieth-century scholarship restored her to a central place in American literary history. Today, Nella Larsen is widely read alongside writers such as Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, and other Harlem Renaissance figures, and Passing remains one of the most discussed American novels of racial identity, social performance, and psychological ambiguity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wilder Publications
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1604599944
• ISBN 13: 9781604599947
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 83
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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