Passing : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Nella Larsen ; edited by Carla Kaplan.

Contains sixteen critical commentaries of Nella Larsen's novel "Passing," that deals with the psychological issues of race and gender and includes reviews, textual notes, chronology, and introduction.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Larsen, Nella
Other Authors:	Kaplan, Carla
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2007]
Edition:	First edition
Series:	Norton critical edition.
Subjects:	Larsen, Nella > Criticism and interpretation. African American women > Fiction. Racially mixed people > Fiction. Passing (Identity) > Fiction. Identity (Psychology) > Fiction. Female friendship > Fiction. Human skin color > Fiction. Married women > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. Psychological fiction. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Fiction.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Nella Larsen's Erotics of Race
The Text of Passing
Backgrounds and Contexts
/ Mary Rennels"Passing" Is a Novel of Longings (April 27, 1929)
Beyond the Color Line (April 28, 1929)
/ Margaret Cheney DawsonThe Color Line (April 28, 1929)
The Dilemma of Mixed Race: Another Study of the Color-line in New York (May 1, 1929)
/ Alice Dunbar-NelsonAs in a Looking Glass (May 3, 1929)
/ W.B. SeabrookTouch of the Tar-brush (May 18, 1929)
/ Esther HymanPassing (June 1929)
/ Aubrey BowserThe Cat Came Back (June 5, 1929)
/ Mary GriffinNovel of Race Consciousness (June 23, 1929)
/ W. E. B. Du BoisPassing (July 1929)
Passing (July 1929)
/ Mary Fleming LarabeePassing (Aug. 1929)
Do They Always Return? (Sept. 28, 1929)
/ "M. L. H."Passing (Dec. 1929)
Passing (Dec. 12, 1929)
Contemporary Coverage of Passing and Race
When Is a Caucasian Not a Caucasian? (March 2, 1911)
Writer Says Brazil Has No Color Line (Oct. 1925)
/ Don PiersonDoes It Pay to "Pass?" (Aug. 20, 1927)
/ Juanita EllsworthFrom White Negroes (May-June 1928)
3,000 Negroes Cross the Line Each Year (July 12, 1928)
/ Louis Fremont BaldwinFrom Negro to Caucasion, Or How the Ethiopian Is Changing His Skin (1929)
/ Emilie HahnCrossing the Color Line (July 28, 1929)
/ Caleb JohnsonFrom Crossing the Color Line (Aug. 26, 1931)
75,000 Pass in Philadelphia Every Day (Dec. 19, 1931)
Careful Lyncher! He May Be Your Brother (Jan. 21, 1932)
Blonde Girl Was 'Passing' (Jan. 23, 1932)
Virginia Is Still Hounding 'White' Negroes Who 'Pass'
The Rhinelander/Jones Case
Society Youth Weds Cabman's Daughter (Nov. 14, 1924)
Poor Girl to Fight Hubby's Parents (Dec. 26, 1924)
From Calls Rhinelander Dupe of Girl He Wed (Nov. 10, 1925)
From Loved Rhinelander, Wife's Letters Say (Nov. 13, 1925)
From Rhinelander Bares Love Secrets (Nov. 21, 1925)
/ Archie MorganFrom Kip's "Soul Message" Notes Read (Nov. 28. 1925)
From Rhinelander Jury Reaches a Decision after Twelve Hours (Dec. 5, 1925)
[Rhinelander Editorial], The Crisis (Jan. 1926)
Rhinelander Gets a Fair Deal (Jan. 26, 1926)
Mrs. Rhinelander to Sail (July 16, 1926)
About Nella Larsen
/ Thelma E. BerlackNew Author Unearthed Right Here in Harlem (May 23, 1928)
/ Mary RennelsBehind the Backs of Books and Authors (April 13, 1929)
/ Nella LarsenJean Blackwell Hutson to Louise Fox (Aug. 1, 1969)
Author's Statements
Letters
To Carl Van Vechten [1925]
To Charles S. Johnson [Aug. 1926]
To Eddie Wasserman [April 3, 1928]
To Eddie Wasserman [April 5, 1928]
To Dorothy Peterson [n.d.]
To Dorothy Peterson [July 19, 1927]
To Dorothy Peterson [July 21, 1927]
To Dorothy Peterson [Aug. 2, 1927]
To Langston Hughes [n.d.]
To Langston Hughes [1930]
To Carl Van Vechten [April 15, 1929]
To Gertrude Stein (Jan. 26, 1931)
To Carl Van Vechten [May 14, 1932]
The Tragic Mulatto (A)
/ Lydia Maria ChildThe Quadroons
/ Frank J. WebbFrom The Garies and Their Friends
/ William Wells BrownFrom Clotel
/ Frances E. W. HarperFrom Iola Leroy
/ William Dean HowellsFrom An Imperative Duty
/ Kate ChopinThe Father of Desiree's Baby
/ Mark TwainFrom Pudd'nhead Wilson
/ Charles Waddell ChesnuttFrom The House Behind the Cedars
/ Georgia Douglas JohnsonThe Octoroon
/ Countee CullenNear White
/ Langston HughesMulatto
/ Fannie HurstFrom Imitation of Life
Selections from Stories and Novels of Passing: "The Moment of Regret"
/ Frances E. W. HarperFrom Iola Leroy
/ James Weldon JohnsonFrom The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
/ Walter WhiteFrom Flight
/ Jessie Redmon FausetFrom Plum Bun
/ George S. SchuylerFrom Black No More
/ Langston HughesPassing
Selected Writings from the Harlem Renaissance
/ Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.The Mulatto to His Critics
/ Jessie Redmon FausetThe Sleeper Wakes
/ Countee CullenHeritage
/ Countee CullenTwo Who Crossed a Line
/ W. E. B. DuBoisCriteria of Negro Art
/ Nella LarsenFreedom
/ George S. SchuylerFrom The Negro-Art Hokum
/ Carl Van VechtenFrom Nigger Heaven
/ Langston HughesPassing for White, Passing for Colored, Passing for Negroes Plus
Criticism
/ Mary Mabel YoumanNella Larsen's Passing: A Study in Irony
/ Claudia TateNella Larsen's Passing: A Problem of Interpretation
/ Mary Helen WashingtonNella Larsen: Mystery Woman of the Harlem Renaissance
/ Cheryl A. WallFrom Passing for What? Aspects of Identity in Nella Larsen's Novels
/ Deborah E. McDowell[From Black Female Sexuality in Passing]
/ Thadious M. DavisNella Larsen's Harlem Aesthetic
/ Mark J. MadiganFrom Miscegenation and "The Dicta of Race and Class": The Rhinelander Case and Nella Larsen's Passing
/ Jennifer DeVere BrodyClare Kendry's "True" Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen's Passing
/ Helena MichieFrom Sororophobia
/ Judith ButlerPassing, Queering: Nella Larsen's Psychoanalytic Challenge
/ Ann duCilleFrom Passing Fancies
/ George HutchinsonNella Larsen and the Veil of Race
/ Kate BaldwinFrom The Recurring Conditions of Nella Larsen's Passing
/ Gayle WaldPassing and Domestic Tragedy
/ Catherine RottenbergPassing: Race, Identification, and Desire
/ Miriam ThaggertRacial Etiquette: Nella Larsen's Passing and the Rhinelander Case.

Passing : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Nella Larsen ; edited by Carla Kaplan.

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