NELLA LARSEN, am 13. April 1891 in Chicago, Illinois, als Nellie Walker geboren. Ihre Mutter war eine dänische Immigrantin. 1919 heiratete sie den bekannten Physiker Elmer Imes und begann zu schreiben. 1928 veröffentlichte Larsen ihren ersten Roman “Quicksand”, ein Jahr später erschien “Passing”. Sie reiste durch Europa, verkehrte in literarischen Zirkeln und schrieb an einem dritten Roman, der allerdings nie erschien. Nach ihrer Scheidung 1933 lebte sie zurückgezogen und arbeitete erneut als Krankenschwester. Sie starb am 30. März 1964 in Brooklyn.
ADELHEID DORMAGEN, übersetzt seit mehr als 30 Jahren leidenschaftlich Literatur, unter anderem Werke von Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles, Amy Bloom, Michael Ondaatje und Doris Lessing. Für “Jenseits von Babylon” von David Malouf erhielt sie 1997 den Deutsch-Australischen Übersetzerpreis.
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Nella Larsen: Passing
"Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable." — Alice Walker"A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare obje …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand
Helga’s mother is white, and her father is black–and absent. Ostracized throughout her lonely childhood for her dark skin, Helga spends her adult life seeking acceptance. Everywhere she goes — …
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Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and Other Stories
Published in 1928, Nella Larsen’s first novel ‘Quicksand’ regards the story of Helga Crane, the lovely and refined mixed-race daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father. The character …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
In Larsen’s second novel, “Passing, ” first published in 1929, the author revisits the theme of her first novel “Quicksand”, that being the struggle for racial identity by children of mixed-race. The …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific, her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. ‘Quicksand’ was autobiographical in nature and …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand & Passing
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, ‘Passing …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Passing confronts the reality of racial passing …
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Nella Larsen: Passing (Rediscovered Books)
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Passing confronts the reality of racial passing …
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Nella Larsen: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific, her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, ‘Passin …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand & Passing
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, ‘Passing …
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Nella Larsen: Passing & Quicksand
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Nella’ Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) (1891- 1964) was a black American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels, of which Passing is her best-known. Though her literary output wa …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Nella’ Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) (1891- 1964) was a black American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels, of which Passing is her best-known. Though her literary output wa …
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Nella Larsen: Seitenwechsel
‘Nella Larsens Roman ‘Seitenwechsel’ ist das Gegenstück zu Scott Fitzgeralds ‘Der große Gatsby’.’ Irene Redfield flieht vor der Hitze eines heißen Sommertages ins Dachrestaurant des Drayton Hotels in …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
First published to critical acclaim in 1929, Passing firmly established Nella Larsen’s prominence among women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. The Modern Library is proud to present Passing — an e …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand
Will hypocrisy and prejudice compel a principled mulatto teacher to desert a steady job and a socially prominent fiance? Brave, bold, and brilliant, Larsen's 1928 autobiographical portrait of a b …
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Nella Larsen: Sabbie mobili
Dal sud degli Stati Uniti a Chicago, nella mitica New York degli anni venti alla Vecchia Europa, Helga Crane insegue un sogno di felicità che continua a sfuggirle. Helga è bellissima e raffinata, ist …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Generally regarded as Nella Larsen’s best work, Passing was first published in 1929 but has received a lot of renewed attention because of its close examination of racial and sexual ambiguities. It h …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand & Passing
Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and Alexander Skarsgard. A writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen wrote just two novels, published here, and a handful of short …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Passing is a remarkably candid exploration of shifting racial and sexual boundaries. Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her Af …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand
First published in 1928, “Quicksand” is the first novel by American author Nella Larsen. It is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young, mixed race woman who struggles to find her place in the world …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance wit …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
In 1920s Harlem, Irene Redfield has a chance reunion with her childhood friend Clare Kendry. Irene is shocked to discover that Clare has been passing as white, sharing a young daughter with a venomou …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Nella Larsen’s 1929 novella follows friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, two black women who pass as white. Their anxieties about passing culminate in tragedy, revealing the powerful repercussion …
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Nella Larsen: Seitenwechsel
Irene Redfield führt mit ihrem Mann und ihren Kindern ein zufriedenes, ruhiges Leben. Bis Clare, ihre Freundin aus Kindertagen, nach New York zieht. Beide Frauen sind trotz ihrer afroamerikanischen W …
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Nella Larsen: Beyond Passing
Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing is hailed today as a significant literary work of Harlem Renaissance, though for several decades it, like all of her works, was out of print. As history ri …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand & Passing
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’ gr …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Now a major Netflix film starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and Alexander Skarsgård Childhood friends Clare and Irene are both light-skinned enough to pass as white, but only one of them has chosen …
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Nella Larsen: Nella Larsen’s Letters, 1917-1935
Nella Larsen’s Letters, 1917-1935 is the first comprehensive collection of Nella Larsen’s letters. The continued interest on the part of readers, scholars, and publishers in Larsen’s life a …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend C …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Restless Classics presents the ninetieth anniversary edition of an undersung gem of the Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen’s Passing, a captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, sel …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand & Passing
VINTAGE CLASSICS’ HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIESCelebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.’She could neither conform nor be h …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.’She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "passing, " this breaking away from all th …
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Nella Larsen: 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.’ …
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William Wells Brown & Harriet E. Wilson: The Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays. Illustrated
African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Befo …
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Nella Larsen: Passando-se
Clare e Irene se reencontraram, por acaso, no terraço de um elegante hotel. Na Chicago dos anos 1920, elas nem poderiam, pela lei, estar ali: são negras que, por conta da pele clara, estavam passando …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand
The orphan of a Danish mother and a West Indian father, Helga Crane is a young woman caught between cultures and in search of a home. Though her beauty and education open many doors, as a biraci …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand
From the acclaimed Harlem Renaissance author of Passing, a novel of one mixed-race woman’s far-reaching quest to discover identity and happiness. At twenty-three, Helga Crane teaches in …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand
‘The overlooked American writer who blows apart modern thinking on race’ Telegraph Born to a Danish mother and a West Indian father, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself as a mixed-race woman …
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Nella Larsen: Passing
Irene Redfield is a light-skinned Black woman living in Harlem, New York, with her husband and two sons. After a chance encounter, Irene resumes contact with a childhood friend, Clare Kendry. Though …
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Nella Larsen: Areia movediça
Neste marco do colorismo, com fortes tintas autobiográficas, Helga Crane é filha de pai negro e mãe branca e, portanto, não tem lugar nos Estados Unidos racista dos anos 1920. Conhecemos Helga em uma …
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Nella Larsen: Quicksand and Passing
"Quicksand and Passing are novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinatin …
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