Nella Larsen - African-American Artist of the Harlem Renaissance Grin Publishing

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Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, printed single-sided, grade: 1 (A), University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institute for England and American Studies), course: Harlem Renaissance, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper will sketch some of the elements of the cultural Zeitgeist that shaped and was reflected in Nella Larsen s writings. But it will concentrate on the novels that she left behind: Quicksand and Passing. An important topic Larsen is dealing with is race-identity. Larsen assimilates these themes in her two novels, not by representing the lower-class problem, but more by focusing on the life and problems of middle-class females. It is more the psychological than the sociological side she portrays. This paper demonstrates that race identity and race dualism reflects Larsen s own life story. First I will give an introduction on the Harlem Renaissance era. Then I will focus on Nella Larsen s life. I will examine her two novels Quicksand and Passing to find out how race identity and race dualism is assimilated in her novels.

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