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"This remarkably comprehensive critical edition does the field a great favor by bringing together in a single volume the full texts of iNella Larsen's thoroughly modernist novel, Passing, and a wealth of contextual materials: contemporary reviews from W. E. B. Du Bois, among others; correspondence, including letters to the likes of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten; biographical and social commentaries, as well as a full complement of the critical responses the novel has generated over the past twenty-five years. " —Ann duCille, Wesleyan University Nella Larsen (1891-1964) occupies a central place in African-American and Modernist literature, and her status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer is rivaled only by Zora Neale Hurstons. This Norton Critical Edition of Larsen's electrifying 1929 novel is accompanied by Carla Kaplan's insightfully detailed introduction, explanatory' annotations, and a Note on the Text. "Backgrounds and Contexts" connects Passing 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, W. B. Seabrook, Mary Griffin, andW. E. B.

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Author

Nella Larsen

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393979169

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.81 / 5 (263 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14