Tobias Barrington Wolff, University of California–Davis, telephone interview by author, October 5, 2002. See also Tobias Barrington Wolff, “Compelled Affirmations, Free Speech, and the U.S. Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy,” ...
Nella Larsen's intense, taut and psychologically nuanced portrayal of lives and identities dangerously colliding established her as a leading writer of America's Harlem Renaissance.
Generally regarded as Nella Larsen's best work, Passing was first published in 1929 but has received a lot of renewed attention because of its close examination of racial and sexual ambiguities.
It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding.
Topics include, for example, Jews passing as Christians and the politics of race; "slumming" and class analysis; and 20th century male impersonators and women's suffrage. The volume is not indexed. c. Book News Inc.
Lillian H. McGuire , Uprooted and Transplanted : From Africa to America , Focus on African - Americans in Es- sex County , Virginia ( New York : Vantage , 1999 ) , pp . 82-89 , 101–107 . 49 Civil Rights Act of 1964 See McGuire ...
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 Norton...
Almost a century later, Passing and its nuanced exploration of the many fraught ways in which we seek to survive remains as timely as ever
"Starting from this consideration, Camaiti Hostert's book turns the meaning of the social practice of passing upside down and makes it become a universal tool to redefine any social, ethnic,...
Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover, this edition of Passing is an outstanding reimagining of a Harlem Renaissance staple for the modern reader.
Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City is an ethnography of the public sphere in Tijuana based on intensive fieldwork in 2006 and 2007 and numerous subsequent brief visits.
This edition features a new introduction by Emily Bernard and notes by Thadious M. Davis. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
In Passing, Rihan Yeh probes the border’s role in shaping Mexican senses of self and collectivity.
Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim. Her classic novel Passing first appeared in 1926.