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Nella Larsen
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(April 13, 1893 - March 30, 1964)
Larsen, who had a Danish-born mother and a West Indies-born father, was a writer
in the literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Her two novels, Quicksand
and Passing, involved issues of gender and racial identity.
The first African American
woman to win the coveted Guggenheim fellowship for creative writing, Larsen is
unfortunately typical of many Harlem Renaissance figures in that her career was
short though brilliant. When the Depression and other forces signaled the end of
this literary flowering, she left writing. She spent her last 30 years as
a supervising nurse in a hospital in New York.
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Nella Larsen on the Web |
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"Passing" and the fading subject
Neil Sullivan, in this 1998 article from
African American Review, looks at the racial identity and gender issues in the 1929 novel.
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Classroom
Issues and Strategies
Helpful to students as well as teachers, this page highlights some of the key issues in reading Nella Larsen. Includes questions for reading or discussion and a very complete bibliography.
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Biography, image, further
readings
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PAL:
Image, bibliography, list of works
From Paul Reuben
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PAL:
Student-written biography
- Voices from the
Gaps
Biography, bibliography and links
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Discovering
Parallels to Nella Larsen
Biography and personal reflections, from Sushama Austin, a writer and
filmmaker.
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About Nella Larsen |
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- Categories: Harlem
Renaissance, writers, African American women
- Places: New York United
States
- Period: 20th century
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Also on this site |
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Bibliography |
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- Nella Larsen, Novelist of the
Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled: Thadious M. Davis. 1994.
- An Intimation of Things
Distant: The Collected Fiction of NL: Nella Larsen, edited by Charles R. Larson. 1992.
- Harlem Renaissance and Beyond:
Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945: Lorraine
Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Paperback, 1990. Buy
the book
- Harlem's Glory: Black Women
Writing 1900-1950: Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph,
editors. 1996.
Text
copyright 1999-2006 ©
Jone Johnson Lewis.