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In Search of Nella Larsen : A Biography of the Color Line.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (624 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674038929
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In Search of Nella LarsenDDC classification:
  • 813/.52 B
LOC classification:
  • PS3523
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Nellie Walker -- 2 Inheriting the Color Line, 1892-1898 -- 3 State Street Years, 1899-1907 -- 4 Turning South: Nashville and Fisk, 1907-1908 -- 5 Coming of Age in Copenhagen, 1908-1912 -- 6 A Black Woman in White: New York, 1912-1915 -- 7 Rebel with a Cause: Tuskegee, 1915-1916 -- 8 A Nurse in the Bronx, 1916-1919 -- 9 Sojourner in Harlem: The Dawn of the "Renaissance," 1919-1923 -- 10 Rooms Full of Children: Seward Park and Harlem, 1923-1924 -- 11 High Bohemia, 1925 -- 12 The New Negro,Model 1926 -- 13 Quicksand -- 14 In the Mecca, 1927 -- 15 Year of Arrival, 1928 -- 16 Passing -- 17 A Star in Harlem, 1929 -- 18 Trouble in Mind, 1930 -- 19 A Novelist on Her Own, 1930-1932 -- 20 The Crack-Up, 1932-1933 -- 21 Letting Go, 1933-1937 -- 22 The Recluse on Second Avenue, 1938-1944 -- 23 Nella Larsen Imes, R.N. -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Born to a Danish seamstress and a West Indian cook, Larsen lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths surrounding her, and the complex reality they mask and mirror. His book is a cultural biography of the color line as lived by a person who embodied all its ambiguities and complexities.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Nellie Walker -- 2 Inheriting the Color Line, 1892-1898 -- 3 State Street Years, 1899-1907 -- 4 Turning South: Nashville and Fisk, 1907-1908 -- 5 Coming of Age in Copenhagen, 1908-1912 -- 6 A Black Woman in White: New York, 1912-1915 -- 7 Rebel with a Cause: Tuskegee, 1915-1916 -- 8 A Nurse in the Bronx, 1916-1919 -- 9 Sojourner in Harlem: The Dawn of the "Renaissance," 1919-1923 -- 10 Rooms Full of Children: Seward Park and Harlem, 1923-1924 -- 11 High Bohemia, 1925 -- 12 The New Negro,Model 1926 -- 13 Quicksand -- 14 In the Mecca, 1927 -- 15 Year of Arrival, 1928 -- 16 Passing -- 17 A Star in Harlem, 1929 -- 18 Trouble in Mind, 1930 -- 19 A Novelist on Her Own, 1930-1932 -- 20 The Crack-Up, 1932-1933 -- 21 Letting Go, 1933-1937 -- 22 The Recluse on Second Avenue, 1938-1944 -- 23 Nella Larsen Imes, R.N. -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Born to a Danish seamstress and a West Indian cook, Larsen lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths surrounding her, and the complex reality they mask and mirror. His book is a cultural biography of the color line as lived by a person who embodied all its ambiguities and complexities.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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