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Nella Larsen (1891–1964)

Auteur van Passing

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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 toon meer 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. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Bevat de namen: Nella Larsen, Nella Larson

Werken van Nella Larsen

Passing (1929) 2,668 exemplaren
Quicksand and Passing (1928) 937 exemplaren
Quicksand (1928) 589 exemplaren
Passing [Norton Critical Edition] (1929) 241 exemplaren
Passando-se 4 exemplaren
חוצה את הקו (2017) 1 exemplaar
Due donne. Passing (2020) 1 exemplaar
PASSANDO -SE 1 exemplaar

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The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Medewerker — 117 exemplaren
Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (2011) — Medewerker — 111 exemplaren
Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 (1987) — Medewerker — 102 exemplaren
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990) — Medewerker — 64 exemplaren
Harlem Renaissance Novels: The Library of America Collection (2011) — Medewerker — 48 exemplaren
The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women (1993) — Medewerker — 45 exemplaren
Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950 (1996) — Medewerker — 42 exemplaren
Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance (1994) — Medewerker — 40 exemplaren
Escape: Stories of Getting Away (2002) — Medewerker — 26 exemplaren
Women of the Harlem Renaissance (2022) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
Passing {2021 film} (2021) — Original book — 7 exemplaren

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Officiële naam
Imes, Nella (married)
Geboortedatum
1891-04-13
Overlijdensdatum
1964-03-30
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Plaats van overlijden
New York, New York, USA
Woonplaatsen
Chicago, Illinois, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA (death)
Denmark
Opleiding
Fisk University
Beroepen
novelist
short story writer
Nurse
librarian
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Guggenheim Fellowship (1930)
Korte biografie
Nella Larsen was born in Chicago to a black father and a white Danish emigrant mother. Her father died when she was young and her mother remarried and had another daughter. Most of the rest of her early life is unknown. She trained as a nurse and as a librarian, and married Elmer Imes, a physicist then living in New York City. She became a celebrated novelist and writer of the Harlem Renaissance, beginning with her 1928 novel, Quicksand. It was followed by Passing (1929). The couple were members of a circle of professionals, intellectuals, and artists that included Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois. Nella Larsen won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930, intending to write more novels, but never did. By 1938, she and her husband were divorced and she was no longer in touch with her friends or her publishers. She took nursing jobs beginning in 1944 and lived a solitary life for the next 20 years until her death.

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6. Passing by Nella Larsen in Backlisted Book Club (maart 2022)
Group Read, August 2020: Passing in 1001 Books to read before you die (augustus 2020)

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These three short stories were the only pieces of fiction Nella Larsen wrote next to her two beautiful novels Quicksand and Passing.

It’s a shame she stopped writing in the 1930’s, after false accusations of plagiarism, because like her novels these stories are three little gems. Two are about former lovers’ foolish acts of despair, of which the first bears an echo of her novel Passing.

The third story, “Sanctuary”, deals with the ultimate loyalty to one’s community and contains in all its shortness an unforgettable plot twist.… (meer)
 
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Werken
12
Ook door
18
Leden
4,850
Populariteit
#5,178
Waardering
3.8
Besprekingen
139
ISBNs
155
Talen
8
Favoriet
10

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