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Tag: Nella Larsen
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Quicksand and Passing Rutgers University Press 1986 246 pages Paper ISBN: 0-8135-1170-4 Nella Larsen (1891-1964) Edited by Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English University of Virginia Nella Larsen’s novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of…
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“Recoil” or “Seize”?: Passing, Ekphrasis and “Exact Expression” in Nella Larsen’s Passing Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing and Culture Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2001 Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University Part One: Deep Nothing Mona Lisa’s famous smile is a thin mouth receding into…
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Crimes of passing: The criminalization of blackness and miscegenation in United States passing narratives University of California, Los Angeles 2005 158 pages Publication Number: AAT 3175169 ISBN: 9780542133046 Susan Elaine Bausch A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature Between approximately 1880 and 1925, large…
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Miscegenation and “the Dicta of Race and Class”: The Rhinelander Case and Nella Larsen’s Passing MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 36, Number 4, Winter 1990 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.1034 pages 523-529 Mark J. Madigan, Professor / Fulbright Program Advisor in English Nazareth College, Rochester, New York The 1986 Rutgers University Press edition of Nella Larsen’s two novels,…
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The Relationship Between Colour and Identity in the Literature of Nella Larsen and Richard Wright Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal Volume 3, Number 2 (June 2008) ISSN 1718-8482 Elisabeth Hudson King’s College London The fiction of Nella Larsen and Richard Wright explores the struggle of African-American men and women to forge an identity for themselves that…
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Clare Kendry’s “True” Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen’s Passing Callaloo Volume 15, Number 4 (Autumn, 1992) pages 1053-1065 Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor of Drama Stanford University Interpretations of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) often have failed to explain the complex symbolism of the narrative. Indeed, dismissive or tendentious criticisms of the text have…
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In the Shadow of Her Ancestry: The New Tragic Mulatta North Carolina State University, Raleigh 2004 60 pages Vonda Marie Easterling A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis examines the plight of the infamous tragic…
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“Still Seeking for Something”: The Unspeakable (Loss) in “Passing” by Nella Larsen Wagadu Volume 6, 2008, Special Issue: Women’s Activism for Gender Equality in Africa 16 pages Agnieszka Mrozik The paper analyzes Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) through the lens of the theory of melancholy from Freud to Butler. Examining the dynamic relationship between Irene Redfield…
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Passing: Race, Identification and Desire Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts Volume 45, Number 4 (Fall 2003) pages 435-52 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel IN THE SECOND HALF of the nineteenth century, African-American writers such as William Wells Brown…