Nella Larsen
1) Passing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A reprint of Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen's 1929 novel in which Irene, an African-American woman with a comfortable life, is disturbed by the return of a childhood friend, Clare, who has passed for white since adolescence and now wants to rejoin the African-American community.
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
Between 1926 and 1930--the golden era of the Harlem Renaissance--Nella Larsen became the first black woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Here, for the first time in one volume, are Larsen's novels "Quicksand" and "Passing" with corrected endings, along with three short stories
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
"Nella Larsen (1891-1964) occupies a central place in African-American and Modernist literature, and her status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer is rivaled only by Zora Neale Hurston's. This edition of Larsen's 1929 novel is accompanied by Carla Kaplan's introduction and explanatory annotations."--BOOK JACKET.
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