{"id":23064,"date":"2012-05-13T02:49:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T02:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23064"},"modified":"2013-02-24T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T15:56:41","slug":"nella-larsen-novelist-of-the-harlem-renaissance-a-womans-life-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23064","title":{"rendered":"Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman&#8217;s Life Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lsupress.org\/books\/detail\/nella-larsen-novelist-of-the-harlem-renaissance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman&#8217;s Life Unveiled<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lsupress.org\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana State University Press<\/a><br \/>\n1994<br \/>\n496 pages<br \/>\n6.00 x 9.00 inches<br \/>\n12 halftones<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780807120705<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.upenn.edu\/People\/ThadiousDavis\" target=\"_blank\">Thadious M. Davis<\/a><\/strong>, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought; Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lsupress.org\/books\/detail\/nella-larsen-novelist-of-the-harlem-renaissance\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lsupress.org\/assets\/images\/book-covers\/1407.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\">Nella Larsen<\/a> (1891\u20131964) is recognized as one of the most influential, and certainly one of the most enigmatic, writers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Renaissance\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem Renaissance<\/a>. With the instant success of her two novels, <em>Quicksand <\/em>(1928) and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2508\" target=\"_blank\">Passing<\/a><\/em> (1929), she became a bright light in New York\u2019s literary firmament. But her meteoric rise was followed by a surprising fall: In 1930 she was accused of plagiarizing a short story, and soon thereafter she disappeared from both the literary and African American worlds of New York. She lived the rest of her life\u2014more than three decades\u2014out of the public eye, working primarily as a nurse. In a remarkable achievement, Thadious Davis has penetrated the fog of mystery that has surrounded Larsen to present a detailed and fascinating account of the life and work of this gifted, determined, yet vulnerable artist. Davis deftly situates the writer within the broader politics and aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance and analyzes her life and work in terms of the current literature on race and gender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman&#8217;s Life Unveiled Louisiana State University Press 1994 496 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 12 halftones Paperback ISBN: 9780807120705 Thadious M. Davis, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought; Professor of English University of Pennsylvania Nella Larsen (1891\u20131964) is recognized as one of the most influential, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,8,17],"tags":[1051,885,87,10721,10720],"class_list":["post-23064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-louisiana-state-university-press","tag-lsu-press","tag-nella-larsen","tag-thadious-davis","tag-thadious-m-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}