
Passing
“...she''s intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth-century France would have been a marvellous setting for her, or the old South if she hadn''t made the mistake of being born a Negro." Mirroring Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, Passing (1929) is the phenomenal sophomore novel of Nella Larsen.
On an ordinary day, Irene Redfield receives an unexpected le...
“...she''s intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth-century France would have been a marvellous setting for her, or the old South if she hadn''t made the mistake of being born a Negro." Mirroring Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, Passing (1929) is the phenomenal sophomore novel of Nella Larsen.
On an ordinary day, Irene Redfield receives an unexpected le...