Passing – Nella Larsen

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• Hardcover and paperback from Penguin Random House

Resources:

• Nella Larsen - Brief Biography from Bloom's Literature

• Obituary - from The New York Times "Overlooked" series, obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times

• Nella Larsen postage stamp - from USPS Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

• "Black With (Some) White Privilege" by Anna Holmes for The New York Times

• "Passing, in Moments" by Mat Johnson for Topic Magazine

• The Loving Generation - a four-part online documentary by Topic

Critical Articles:

• "Beautiful White Girlhood?: Daisy Buchanan in Nella Larsen's Passing" - Sinead Moynihan

• "Nella Larsen and the Veil of Race" - George Hutchinson

• "Nella Larsen's Passing: Irony and the Critics" - Jonathan Little

• "Nella Larsen's Passing and the Fading Subject" - Nell Sullivan

• "Nella Larsen's Passing: A Problem of Interpretation" - Claudia Tate

• "Nella Larsen's Passing: A Study in Irony" - Mary Mabel Youman

• "Passing for What? Aspects of Identity in Nella Larsen's Novels" - Cheryl A. Wall

• "Passing: Race, Identification, and Desire"- Catherine Rottenberg

• "'Then everything was dark'?: The Two Endings of Nella Larsen's Passing" - Mark J. Madigan

• "Toward a Narratology of Passing: Epistemology, Race, and Misrecognition in Nella Larsen's Passing" - Gabrielle McIntire