Title In search of Nella Larsen : a biography of the color line / George Hutchinson

Published Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 611 pages) : illustrations, portraits Contents Nellie Walker -- Inheriting the color line, 1892-1898 -- State Street years, 1899-1907 -- Turning south: Nashville and Fisk, 1907-1908 -- Coming of age in Copenhagen, 1908-1912 -- A Black woman in white: New York, 1912-1915 -- Rebel with a cause: Tuskegee, 1915-1916 -- A nurse in the Bronx, 1916-1919 -- Sojourner in Harlem: the dawn of the "Renaissance," 1919-1923 -- Rooms full of children: Seward Park and Harlem, 1923-1924 -- High Bohemia, 1925 -- The new Negro, model 1926 -- Quicksand -- In the Mecca, 1927 -- Year of arrival, 1928 -- Passing -- A star in Harlem, 1929 -- Trouble in mind, 1930 -- A novelist on her own, 1930-1932 -- The crack-up, 1932-1933 -- Letting go, 1933-1937 -- The recluse on Second Avenue, 1938-1944 -- Nella Larsen Imes, R.N Summary Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of the Western Hemisphereʼs most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen (1891-1964) lived her life in the shadows of Americaʼs racial divide. She wrote about that life, was briefly celebrated in her time, then was lost to later generations-only to be rediscovered and hailed by many as the best black novelist of her generation. In his search for Nell Larsen, the ʺmystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance, ʺ George Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths surrounding this central figure of modern literary studies, as well as the complex reality they mask and mirror. His book is a cultural biography of the color line as it was lived by one person who truly embodied all of its ambiguities and complexities. We see Larsen vividly as an often tormented modernist, from the trauma of her childhood to her emergence as a star of the Harlem Renaissance. Showing the links between her experiences and her writings, Hutchinson illuminates the singularity of her achievement and shatters previous notions of her position in the modernist landscape. Revealing the suppressions and misunderstandings that accompany the effort to separate black from white, his book addresses the vast consequences for all Americans of color-line cultureʼs fundamental rule: race trumps family. Book jacket Includes information about African Americans in nursing, Chicago, color line, Counte Cullen, Denmark, W.E.B. Du Bois, Fisk University, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Elmer S. Imes, Spanish flu influenza pandemic, interracial marriage, James Weldon Johnson, miscegenation, Dorothy Peterson, New York Public Library (NYPL), black librarian, racial segregation, Ernestine Rose, Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten, Walter White, Edgar C. Williams, etc Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-591) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Larsen, Nella. SUBJECT Larsen, Nella fast Subject Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography African American novelists -- Biography Harlem Renaissance. Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography African American women novelists -- 20th century -- Biography Harlem Renaissance. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Women novelists, American African American women novelists African American novelists Harlem Renaissance Intellectual life Novelists, American Harlem renaissance SUBJECT Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Subject New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book LC no. 2005058129 ISBN 9780674038929 0674038924

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