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The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen - A Collection of Harlem Renaissance Stories on Identity, Race, and Society

The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen - A Collection of Harlem Renaissance Stories on Identity, Race, and Society

Larsen, Nella

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ISBN10: 1515432440
ISBN13: 9781515432449
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

This volume gathers the complete short fiction of Nella Larsen, a central yet long-neglected voice of the Harlem Renaissance whose work examines race, identity, and social belonging in early twentieth-century America.

Larsen's fiction is marked by psychological precision and formal restraint. Her stories explore the complexities of racial passing, class aspiration, and emotional isolation within the shifting cultural landscape of the 1920s and 1930s. Characters move between communities and social expectations, negotiating the visible and invisible boundaries that structure modern life. Without polemic or sentimentality, Larsen exposes the quiet pressures exerted by respectability, colour, gender, and desire.

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