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Passing (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by Nella Larsen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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'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 LiteratureMarried 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.

Who reads Passing (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)?

Author

Nella Larsen

Publisher

Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486113463

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.81 / 5 (318 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14