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Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen & Fannie Hurst » Read Now
by Licia Morrow Calloway. 174 pgs.

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Difference in View: Women and Modernism (Chap. 1 "Europe in the Novels of Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen") » Read Now
by Gabriele Griffin. 186 pgs.

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Nella Larsen's 'Passing' and the Fading Subject, in African American Review » Read Now
by Neil Sullivan. 14 pgs.

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...Nella Larsens Passing and the fading subject...Although many critics have accused Nella Larsen of using race as a pretext for examining...the 1994 biography by Thadious...
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Domestic Violence in the Harlem Renaissance: Remaking the Record in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz, in African American Review » Read Now
by Stephen Knadler. 19 pgs.

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Race Passing and American Individualism (Chap. 6 "Reading Passing through a Different Lens") » Read Now
by Kathleen Pfeiffer. 168 pgs.

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A literary study of the ambiguities of racial identity in American culture
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Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance (Chap. 4 "A Clash of Birthrights: Nella Larsen, the Feminine, and African American Identity") » Read Now
by J. Martin Favor. 192 pgs.

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What constitutes "blackness" in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is truly African American? Is a struggling hip-hop artist more "authentic" than a conservative Supreme Court justice? In Authentic Blackness J. Martin Favor looks to the New Negro Movement-also known as...
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What constitutes "blackness" in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is truly African American? Is a struggling hip-hop artist more "authentic" than a conservative Supreme Court justice? In Authentic Blackness J. Martin Favor looks to the New Negro Movement-also known as the Harlem Renaissance-to explore early challenges to the idea that race is a static category. Authentic Blackness looks at the place of the "folk"-those African Americans "furthest down," in the words of Alain Locke-& how the representation of the folk & the black middle class both spurred the New Negro Movement & became one of its most serious points of contention. Drawing on vernacular theories of African American literature from such figures as Henry Louis Gates Jr. & Houston Baker as well as theorists Judith Butler & Stuart Hall, Favor looks closely at the work of four Harlem Renaissance fictions writers: James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, & Jean Toomer. Arguing that each of these writers had, at best, an ambiguous relationship to African American folk culture, Favor demonstrates how they each sought to redress the notion of a fixed black identity. Authentic Blackness illustrates how "race" has functioned as a type of performative discourse, a subjectivity that simultaneously builds & conceals its connections with such factors as class, gender, sexuality, & geography. Offering new insight into the work of the Harlem Renaissance as well as concepts of racialized identity, Authentic Blackness will be welcomed by all those involved in the study of African American literature & culture. It will also be of interest to those concerned more generally with issues surrounding constructions of race.
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Passing and the Fictions of Identity ("Sliding Significations: Passing as a Narrative and Textual Strategy in Nella Larsen's Fiction" begins on p. 75) » Read Now
by Elaine K. Ginsberg. 304 pgs.

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Passing refers to the process whereby a person of one race, gender, and nationality adopts the guise of another.
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Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race (Chap. Four "Desire and Death: Seducing the Lost Father in Quicksand, by Nella Larsen") » Read Now
by Claudia Tate. 238 pgs.

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Although psychoanalytic theory is one of the most important and influential tools in contemporary literary criticism, to date it has had very little impact on the study of African-American literature and culture. Now, Claudia Tate argues that psycholanalytic paradigms can produce rich readings of...
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Although psychoanalytic theory is one of the most important and influential tools in contemporary literary criticism, to date it has had very little impact on the study of African-American literature and culture. Now, Claudia Tate argues that psycholanalytic paradigms can produce rich readings of African-American desire, alienation, and subjectivity. Tate summarizes the work of such figures as Freud and Lacan, with references to their contemporary literary proponents, and examines a series of texts by Emma Kelly, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nella Larsen. This provocative new book will serve as an introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its application for African-American literature and culture. Tate strikes unchartered territory, and her work will be of great interest to scholars and students in African-American studies.
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Nella Larsen and the Intertextual Geography of Quicksand, in African American Review » Read Now
by Anna Brickhouse. 28 pgs.

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...Nella Larsen and the Intertextual Geography of Quicksand...the middle of her 1928 novel Quicksand, Nella Larsen thematizes her authorial relation to the...sensibilities...
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Nella Larsen's 'Quicksand': Untangling the Webs of Exoticism, in African American Review » Read Now
by Debra B. Silverman. 16 pgs.

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...Nella Larsens Quicksand: untangling the webs of exoticism...Introduction" to the Rutgers edition of Nella Larsens Quicksand, Deborah McDowell suggests...it are Gertrude...
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Self-Delusion and Self-Sacrifice in Nella Larsen's 'Quicksand,' in African American Review » Read Now
by Kimberly Monda. 17 pgs.

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...delusion and self-sacrifice in Nella Larsens Quicksand. by Kimberly Monda Nella Larsens portrait of Helga Crane in Quicksand...African American artists (including Nella...
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Foreign Exotic or Domestic Drudge? The African American Woman in "Quicksand" and "Tar Baby," in MELUS » Read Now
by Ann Rayson. 14 pgs.

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...Rayson Both Helga Crane in Nella Larsens Quicksand (1928) and Jadine Childs...like Dorothy Peterson and novelist Nella Larsen, but their stays were either very...Nella...
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Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined ("'A Lack Somewhere': Nella Larsen's Quicksand and the Harlem Renaissance" begins on p. 249) » Read Now
by Victor A. Kramer, Robert A. Russ. 422 pgs.

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While the height of the Harlem Renaissance occurred more than seventy years ago, in many ways it still has an effect on our culture. "The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined" brings to light long-neglected writers and artists from that era for a second look at the roles that they played in developing...
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While the height of the Harlem Renaissance occurred more than seventy years ago, in many ways it still has an effect on our culture. "The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined" brings to light long-neglected writers and artists from that era for a second look at the roles that they played in developing the arts in America, and for a re-evaluation of thier talents.
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To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance (Chap. 4 "Nella Larsen: The Anatomy of Sleep") » Read Now
by Jon Woodson. 206 pgs.

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How a Greek exile and mystic teacher influenced America's Harlem Renaissance
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Structures of the Jazz Age: Mass Culture, Progressive Education, and Racial Discourse in American Modernism (Chap. 6 "Primitive Desires and the Desire for the Primitive: DuBose Heyward and Nella Larsen") » Read Now
by Chip Rhodes. 218 pgs.

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Rhodes grants the truth of appearances to the cliches of the Jazz Age - the lost generation of writers, the era of mass consumption and the silver screen - while revealing their roots in a conservative ideology which sustained Republican rule.
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Blues Notes on Black Sexuality: Sex and the Texts of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen, in Journal of the History of Sexuality » Read Now
by Ann Ducille. 27 pgs.

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...the Texts of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen ANN DUCILLE Department of...and 1930s, Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen. Though by no means as risque and...1930s such as Jessie...