In Search of Nella Larsen A Biography of the Color Line |
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Author:
| Hutchinson, George |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-02180-8 |
Publication Date: | May 2006 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Imprint: | Belknap Press |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $82.95 |
Book Description:
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Born to a Danish seamstress and a West Indian cook, Larsen lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths surrounding her, and the complex reality they mask and mirror. His book is a cultural biography of the color line as lived by a person who embodied all its ambiguities and complexities.
Born to a Danish seamstress and a West Indian cook, Larsen lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths surrounding her, and the complex reality they mask and mirror. His book is a cultural biography of the color line as lived by a person who embodied all its ambiguities and complexities.