{"id":28116,"date":"2013-02-06T03:08:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T03:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28116"},"modified":"2013-02-06T03:09:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T03:09:59","slug":"%e2%80%9cand-none-for-clare-kendry%e2%80%9d-the-mulatta-clique-and-female-jealousy-in-nella-larsen%e2%80%99s-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28116","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd None for Clare Kendry\u201d: The Mulatta Clique and Female Jealousy in Nella Larsen\u2019s Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/asianshakespearean.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/25\/and-none-for-clare-kendry-the-mulatta-clique-and-female-jealousy-in-nella-larsens-passing1\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAnd None for Clare Kendry\u201d: The Mulatta Clique and Female Jealousy in Nella Larsen\u2019s Passing<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asianshakespearean.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">AsianShakespearean ~ Poetic Justifications, Artistic Testimonies&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n2012-04-25<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en-gb.facebook.com\/asianshakespeare\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Hu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scholarship on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\">Nella Larsen\u2019s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2508\" target=\"_blank\">Passing<\/a> <\/em>has frequently been approached from the angles of race and queer theories.\u00a0 H. J. Landry and soon after, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=28034\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Carr<\/a>, have recently broken ground in their demonstrations of a new synthesized approach to the discourses, taking into account symptomatic readings of homosexual desire as an expression of hooksian feminism and ethnic pride. Nevertheless, by synthesizing, both critical approaches tread dangerously on the delicate lines concerning race and gender: Landry, although meticulously addressing his usage of the term, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>,\u201d in his third footnote, takes the political construction of \u201crace\u201d for granted; his perpetual separation of \u201cblack\u201d and \u201cwhite\u201d as distinct figures even as he rebukes this constructed \u201cblood quantum version of race\u201d undermines the internal, complex \u201ccultural authenticities\u201d which Candice Jenkins just a year before him had striven to demarcate in her analysis of the same novel (46-47). So undermining, Landry problematically critiques that performance of conventional femininity through submission to black men is \u201cembracing inferiority\u201d (25). Carr, in a similar vein, situates paranoid interpretations of passing as \u201cnothing\u201d for \u201csomething,\u201d implying consequently that \u201cblackness\u201d and \u201cwhiteness\u201d are, in fact, differentiated by absence and existence respectively. Carr\u2019s ironic dichotomy necessitates qualification throughout his assessment of paranoia. He admits repeatedly that concentrated focus on the nothing does, indeed, further paranoia itself. Controversy arises in Carr\u2019s article when he subsequently links paranoia with homosexuality with the \u201ckilling desire\u201d which ultimately eliminates Clare Kendry (291) \u2014 this time, without sufficient qualification. These racial and gender pitfalls caution us to re-evaluate our current synthesis when speaking of <em>Passing<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/asianshakespearean.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/25\/and-none-for-clare-kendry-the-mulatta-clique-and-female-jealousy-in-nella-larsens-passing1\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd None for Clare Kendry\u201d: The Mulatta Clique and Female Jealousy in Nella Larsen\u2019s Passing AsianShakespearean ~ Poetic Justifications, Artistic Testimonies&#8230; 2012-04-25 Rebecca Hu Scholarship on Nella Larsen\u2019s Passing has frequently been approached from the angles of race and queer theories.\u00a0 H. J. Landry and soon after, Brian Carr, have recently broken ground in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8],"tags":[13568,87,13567],"class_list":["post-28116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-asianshakespearean","tag-nella-larsen","tag-rebecca-hu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28116","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=28116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}