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The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen

Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen( )
Author: Larsen, Nella
Editor: Larson, Charles
Foreword by: Golden, Marita
ISBN:978-0-385-72100-4
Publication Date:Nov 2001
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Anchor
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.95
Book Description:

A remarkable volume that brings together the complete fiction of the author of Passing and Quicksand, one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. * "An original and hugely insightful writer." --The New York Times Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nella Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belonged....
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Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Fiction / African American & Black / General
Fiction / City Life
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.19 x 7.99 x 0.65 Inches
Book Weight:0.488 Pounds
Author Biography
Larsen, Nella (Author)
Nella Larsen was associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She also worked as a librarian and a nurse in New York City, pursuing nursing after her brief, successful writing career until her death in 1964. Larsen's mother was Danish, and her father was West Indian; she used her experience as the child of middle-class parents in a mixed marriage to create characters in two novels who are stranded, caught between two cultures and unable to feel wholly at home in either. In each of Larsen's novels, the heroine suffers suffocating constrictions of her identity in both African American and white European culture. These crises in both Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) are further complicated by the heroine's quest for sexual as well as social identity, and both novels end without hopeful resolution. Both contain autobiographical elements, but Quicksand, the more successful, reproduced in fictional form many of the circumstances of Larsen's own early life. Although her work had been out of print for many years, she has recently been rediscovered. 020



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