Deborah E. McDowell
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Quicksand and Passing
By Nella Larsen; Edited by Deborah E. McDowell
Rutgers University Press
Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of the black bourgeoisie. The novels' greatest appeal and achievement, however, is not sociological, but psychological. As noted in the editor's comprehensive introduction, Larsen takes the theme of psychic dualism, so popular in Harlem Renaissance fiction, to a higher and more complex level, displaying a sophisticated understanding and penetrating analysis of black female psychology.
Recovering the Black Female Body
Self-Representation by African American Women
Edited by Michael Bennett and Vanessa D. Dickerson
Rutgers University Press
Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women’s attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.
- Copyright year: 2000
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