Tag: Brian Carr

  • Paranoid Interpretation, Desire’s Nonobject, and Nella Larsen’s “Passing” PMLA (Publication of the Modern Language Association) Volume 119, Number 2 (March, 2004) pages 282-295 Brian Carr Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) has occasioned a great deal of paranoid interpretation, in large part because the novel is about nothing. I use nothing in the sense of no thing or a non-object,…