{"id":9949,"date":"2010-11-09T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2011-06-25T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T20:03:58","slug":"%e2%80%9cdeath-by-misadventure%e2%80%9d-teaching-transgression-inthrough-larsen%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cpassing%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9949","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDeath by Misadventure\u201d: Teaching Transgression in\/through Larsen\u2019s \u201cPassing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/lit.2010.0013\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDeath by Misadventure\u201d: Teaching Transgression in\/through Larsen\u2019s \u201cPassing\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/college_literature\/toc\/lit.37.4.html\" target=\"_blank\">College Literature<br \/>\nVolume 37, Number 4<\/a>, Fall 2010<br \/>\npages 120-144<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1542-4286 Print ISSN: 0093-3139<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/lit.2010.0013\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/lit.2010.0013<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greensborocollege.edu\/directories\/profile-detail.cfm?customel_datapageid_8042=42023\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Labb\u00e9<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum<br \/>\n<em>Greensboro College, Greensboro, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article provides college literature teachers with a detailed historical, theoretical, and critical analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\">Larsen\u2019s<\/a> popular novel. Using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_hooks\" target=\"_blank\">bell hooks<\/a>\u2019 groundbreaking approach to \u201ctransgressive\u201d education, as described in <em>Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom<\/em>, the article illustrates the means by which <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2508\" target=\"_blank\">Passing<\/a><\/em> can help teachers achieve hooks\u2019 radical vision of learning. To this end, the author situates Larsen and her novel within an inclusive, kaleidoscopic vision of modernism and folds into this discussion Larsen\u2019s modernist stylistic strategies. Related to these subversive strategies are the critical debates surrounding Larsen\u2019s use\/interrogation of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\">tragic mulatto<\/a>, and (potentially) lesbian narratives. In addition to these \u201ctransgressive\u201d interpretations of the text, the author reads Clare Kendry as a New Woman anthropologist figure and illustrates how our inability to decipher the cause of her demise is a testament to Larsen&#8217;s success as a \u201ctransgressive\u201d modernist author.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/college_literature\/v037\/37.4.labbe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDeath by Misadventure\u201d: Teaching Transgression in\/through Larsen\u2019s \u201cPassing\u201d College Literature Volume 37, Number 4, Fall 2010 pages 120-144 E-ISSN: 1542-4286 Print ISSN: 0093-3139 DOI: 10.1353\/lit.2010.0013 Jessica Labb\u00e9, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum Greensboro College, Greensboro, North Carolina This article provides college literature teachers with a detailed historical, theoretical, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,6462],"tags":[3812,4347,87],"class_list":["post-9949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-passing-2","tag-college-literature","tag-jessica-labbe","tag-nella-larsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949","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=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}