Nella Larsen
Passing
Paperback
(Dover Publications Oct. 26, 2004)
, Dover Ed edition
"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 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." 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.
- Series
- Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- ISBN
- 0486437132 / 9780486437132
- Pages
- 94
- Weight
- 4.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.2 x 0.2 in.
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