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In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line
Book Review:In Search of Nella Larsen is more than a life story. George Hutchinson subtitled it A Biography of the Color Line, and while accumulating all that can be known about Nella Larsen herself, he also documents the larger and more painful picture of what it meant to be biracial in America in the early part of the 20th Century; how America viewed and views race. An obvious labor of love, Hutchinson was determined to set right the often (deliberately) distorted record of this excellent and important writer. Correcting the massive amount of lies and misinformation about Larsen (even found on GR), this exhaustively thorough book documents a life as interesting as any novel. How many authors, having published two novels (Quicksand () and Passing ()) and three short stories, could have a compelling and fascinating page biography? In Search of Nella Larsen is over twice as long as all Larsen's published work, and amply demonstrates her essential leadership in the Harlem Renaissance.
Nella Larsen was born to a Danish immigrant mother and a West Indian father, who was at le
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
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- x, pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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In Search exercise Nella Larsen: A Life of rendering Color Line by Martyr Hutchinson (Book Review)
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