"e;Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.--Alice Walker"e;A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel."e;--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 "e;passing for white."e; 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.
| ISBN: | 9780486113463 |
| Publication date: | 5th March 2012 |
| Author: | Larsen, Nella |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |
| Primary Genre | Classic fiction: general and literary |
