{"product_id":"passing-a-harlem-renaissance-classic-of-race-identity-and-social-performance-hardcover","title":"Passing: A Harlem Renaissance Classic of Race, Identity, and Social Performance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNella Larsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePassing\u003c\/em\u003e is Nella Larsen's powerful Harlem Renaissance novel of race, identity, class, marriage, and social performance in early twentieth-century America.\u003c\/strong\u003e The story centres on Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, two light-skinned Black women whose lives have taken sharply different paths. Irene lives within the Black middle class of Harlem, while Clare has crossed the colour line and lives as white, concealing her racial identity from her racist husband and the society around her. Their renewed acquaintance becomes increasingly charged with fascination, resentment, danger, and ambiguity, as Larsen examines the unstable boundaries between safety and desire, belonging and concealment, freedom and self-erasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith remarkable compression and psychological precision, \u003cem\u003ePassing\u003c\/em\u003e explores the pressures created by racism, respectability, gender expectation, social status, and the need to survive inside a hostile racial order. Larsen's novel is both a major work of African American literature and one of the essential texts of the Harlem Renaissance, notable for its restrained style, moral complexity, and unresolved emotional force. For readers of American literary classics, Black women writers, modernist fiction, Harlem Renaissance literature, and novels of racial identity and social constraint, \u003cem\u003ePassing\u003c\/em\u003e remains a brief but extraordinarily powerful work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNella Larsen\u003c\/b\u003e was born Nellie Walker in 1891 in Chicago. Her mother was a Danish immigrant and her father an immigrant from the Danish West Indies. Larsen attended school in all white environments in Chicago until she moved to Nashville to attend high school. Larsen later practiced nursing, and from 1922 to 1926, served as a librarian at the New York Public Library. After resigning from this position, Larsen began her literary career by writing her first novel, \u003ci\u003eQuicksand\u003c\/i\u003e (1928), which won her the Harmon Foundation's bronze medal. After the publication of her second novel, \u003ci\u003ePassing\u003c\/i\u003e (1929), Larsen was awarded the first Guggenheim Fellowship given to an African American woman, establishing her as a premier novelist of the Harlem Renaissance. Nella Larsen died in New York in 1964. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eDarryl Pinckney\u003c\/b\u003e, a longtime contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eBlack Deutschland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHigh Cotton\u003c\/i\u003e, and two works of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eBlackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOut There: Mavericks of Black Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also collaborated with Robert Wilson on theater projects, most recently an adaption of Daniil Kharm's \u003ci\u003eThe Old Woman\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMaggie\/Malachi Lily\u003c\/b\u003e is a shapeshifting, black, nonbinary artist and moth from Philadelphia, PA. Seeking to combat our present day cravings for instant gratification and toxic individualism, they create works of art, literature, and programming that resonate spiritual light. They hope their work causes you to want to curl up in the sun and ponder, ideally with a cat.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 84\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Passing\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5.7\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377923330285,"sku":"9781515432418","price":34.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/n6U-0wKgkF9781515432418.webp?v=1785620797","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/passing-a-harlem-renaissance-classic-of-race-identity-and-social-performance-hardcover","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}