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

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

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Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook, Nella Larsen lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. Her writings about that life, briefly celebrated in her time, were lost to later generations--only to be rediscovered and hailed by many. In his search for Nella Lars...

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Hutchinson, George,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • 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

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