| Passing Contributor(s): Larsen, Nella (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486437132 ISBN-13: 9780486437132 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $7.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence -- until a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been "passing for white." "Passing" offers fascinating psychological insights into issues of race and gender. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Women - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004050240 |
| Lexile Measure: 810 |
| Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5.52" W x 8.64" (0.27 lbs) 94 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - New York - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 60413 Reading Level: 5.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable. -- Alice Walker A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel. -- The Saturday Review of Literature Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence-until she is shaken out of it by a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been passing for white. An important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen was the first African-American woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Her fictional portraits of women seeking their identities through a fog of racial confusion were informed by her own Danish-West Indian parentage, and Passing offers fascinating psychological insights into issues of race and gender. |