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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Nella Larsen"”.
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Aesthetic detail in the works of Nella Larsen
In the novellas Quicksand and Passing, Nella Larsen uses the often maligned detail to explore issues of gender, race, and sexuality. Female body parts, women's clothing, and skin color are particularly reiterated and fetishized. These evocative descriptions function symbolically and at times act as …
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"The Thing Became Real": New Materialisms and Race in the Fiction of Nella Larsen
… materiality and textuality in the fiction of Nella Larsen, using new materialist and affect theories as frameworks for reading her short stories, “The Wrong Man” and “Freedom” (1926), and her novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929). I argue that Larsen mobilizes concepts of misrecognition …
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Around Talk: Affect, Triviality, and Possibility in Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen
… the fiction of Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen through the lens of talk. I use the term ‘talk’ to define and theorize a liminal category of expression in these texts, vacillating between the elevated, ineffable significance associated with the art of conversation and the mere …
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Zur Problematik von Herkunft, Geschlecht und Identitätsfindung in den beiden Romanen von Nella Larsen "Quicksand" (1928) und "Passing" (1929)
… Romane „Quicksand“ und „Passing“ von Nella Larsen zeigen Hauptprotagonistinnen mit interrassischen Identitäten, die auf einer schwarzen und weißen Elternschaft beruhen und sich damit an den bis in die späten 1970er Jahre in den USA tatsächlich existierenden sog. Rassenmischungsverboten …
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Any Bodies' Protest Novel: Challenging the Politics of Canon Formation in the works of Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin
James Baldwin, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston are three authors who are very often read alongside one another in classrooms, book groups, and history. This grouping is often based on a system of seemingly arbitrary but identity-based categorical structures . Facets of the author' s assigned …
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Creating a terministic screen of "mothering" in Nella Larsen's Passing and Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life
… to the topic of motherhood within the novels of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) and Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life (1932), critical attention mainly focuses on issues of race, class, or gender. Moreover, in regards to the novels, rhetorical consideration of the term “mothering” and the act of it …
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"A Shade Too Unreserved": Destabilizing Sexuality and Gender Constructs of the New Negro Identity in Harlem Renaissance Literature
… debates through their works. Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston used their own fictional works to explore the New Negro construct being promoted. In examining the constructed nature of this New Negro identity, these artists strove to destabilize the social "norms" upon which …
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Cross -Border Critical Race Theory: Black and Native Fiction, American and Canadian Legal Policy
I show how Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, George Schuyler, and Toni Morrison expose and challenge the Black/White binary and one drop rule, targeting their respective contemporary audiences with a specifically American understanding of race. Contemporary Black …
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Queer Natives
… elements. The authors who anchor this study---Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Leopold Senghor, Jomo Kenyatta, and Frantz Fanon---both constructed and contested black normativity across diaspora."
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Escrituras do corpo: leituras de uma poética queer Niterói
… como David Leavitt, Juliet Jacques e Nella Larsen, destacando o objetivo de ressignificar não apenas leituras contemporâneas, mas também textos pertencentes ao cânone e, por vezes, lidos como intocáveis
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The Space Between “Seen” and “Unseen:” Queer People and the 1915-1945 New Negro Renaissance
… Bruce Nugent, Maple Hampton, Countee Cullen, and Nella Larsen will function as central figures to this narrative and analysis of queerness and non-conformity within the hegemonic ideology of the movement. Furthermore, this project will provide an in-depth analysis of both physical and literary …
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After Fragmentation: Mental Health and Resilience in Modernist Women’s Literature
… how the modernist women writers Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, Emily Holmes Coleman, and Jean Rhys drew on fragmentation as a narrative and aesthetic strategy in fiction between 1925 and 1939 through their use of ellipses, omissions, and experimental prose, enabling them to portray posttraumatic …
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Choran community: The aesthetics of encounter in literary and photographic modernism
… writers Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston, and photographers Gertrude Kasebier, James Van Der Zee, and Walker Evans.</p><p>The artists I discuss share a common humanist concern for creating moments of wholeness in their work. Moreover, their evocations …
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Surprise Encounters: Readings in Transatlantic Modernism
… writers as Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen, but also Benjamin's shock poets par excellence--Baudelaire and Proust. Each translates Emerson's central question--How do I live so that every moment is new?--into compositional terms, to ask: How do I write so that every sentence is …
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
… The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899), Passing by Nella Larsen (1929), Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1937), The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959) and Sula by Toni Morrison (1973). Although not emblematic, consideration of these novels alongside one another offers an …
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
… The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899), Passing by Nella Larsen (1929), Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1937), The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959) and Sula by Toni Morrison (1973). Although not emblematic, consideration of these novels alongside one another offers an …
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“Quality is everything” : rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement in interwar women’s literature of England, Ireland and the United States
… ideas, an association that the third chapter, on Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand examines in detail by comparing birth control and African-American racial uplift rhetoric. Crossing the Atlantic, the fourth chapter looks at the influence of the English birth control movement on Irish novelist …
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“Quality is everything” : rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement in interwar women’s literature of England, Ireland and the United States
… ideas, an association that the third chapter, on Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand examines in detail by comparing birth control and African-American racial uplift rhetoric. Crossing the Atlantic, the fourth chapter looks at the influence of the English birth control movement on Irish novelist …