Passing

“Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.” — Alice Walker
“A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel.” — The Saturday Review of Literature
Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem’s vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence-until she is shaken out of it by a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been “passing for white.” An important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen was the first African-American woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Her fictional portraits of women seeking their identities through a fog of racial confusion were informed by her own Danish-West Indian parentage, and Passing offers fascinating psychological insights into issues of race and gender.

Author: Nella Larsen
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 10/26/2004
Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.64h x 5.52w x 0.22d
ISBN: 9780486437132
Language: English

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