W. W. Norton
September 2007
On Sale: September 19, 2007
546 pages ISBN: 0393979164 EAN: 9780393979169 Kindle: B00CLP1FQU Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American,
Modernist, and women's literature. Her status as a Harlem
Renaissance woman writer was rivaled by only Zora Neale
Hurston's. This Norton Critical Edition of Larsen's
electrifying 1929 novel includes Carla Kaplan's detailed and
thought-provoking introduction, thorough explanatory
annotations, and a Note on the Text.
An unusually
rich "Background and Contexts" section connects the novel to
the historical events of the day, most notably the
sensational Rhinelander/Jones case of 1925. Fourteen
contemporary reviews are reprinted, including those by Alice
Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Griffin, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Published
accounts from 1911 to 1935—by Langston Hughes, Juanita
Ellsworth, and Caleb Johnson, among others—provide a nuanced
view of the contemporary cultural dimensions of race and
passing, both in America and abroad. Also included are
Larsen's statements on the novel and on passing, as well as
a generous selection of her letters and her central writings
on "The Tragic Mulatto(a)" in American literature.
Additional perspective is provided by related Harlem
Renaissance works.
"Criticism" provides fifteen
diverse critical interpretations, including those by Mary
Helen Washington, Cheryl A. Wall, Deborah E. McDowell, David
L. Blackmore, Kate Baldwin, and Catherine
Rottenberg.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography
are also included.
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