«"Claroscuro" y "Arenas movedizas" son dos novelas que nunca olvidaré. Abren todo un mundo de experiencias y de luchas que, cuando las leí por primera vez hace años, me pareció absolutamente cautivador,...
«"Claroscuro" es una obra digna de Henry James por su meticulosidad [..], un relato sagaz en su concepción y exquisito en su factura, que, además de plantear los problemas relacionados con la identidad racial en el ambiente...
In 1920s Harlem, Irene Redfield has a chance reunion with her childhood friend Clare Kendry. Irene is shocked to discover that Clare has been passing as white, sharing a young daughter with a venomously racist white husband. Each woman grows increasingly...
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Nella Larsenâs 1929 novella follows friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, two black women who are able to pass as white. Their anxieties about passing culminate in tragedy, revealing the powerful repercussions of hiding oneâ...
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Passing confronts the reality of racial passing. The novel focuses on two childhood friends Clare and...
Facsimile of 1929 Edition. Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clares childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as...
The Nella Larsen Collection is comprised of five Nella Larsen fiction including; Quicksand, Passing, Freedom, The Wrong Man, and Sanctuary.Quicksand, Larsenâs first novel, tells the story of Helga Crane who is the lovely and refined daug...
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Passing confronts the reality of racial passing. The novel focuses on two childhood friends Clare and...
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, Passing and Quicksand .