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Author: Nella Larsen; Carla Kaplan

Larsen’s status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer was rivaled by only Zora Neale Hurston’s. This Norton Critical Edition of her electrifying 1929 novel includes Carla Kaplan’s detailed and thought-provoking introduction, thorough explanatory annotations, and a Note on the Text. An unusually rich “Background and Contexts” section connects the novel to the historical events of the day, most notably the sensational Rhinelander/Jones case of 1925. Fourteen contemporary reviews are reprinted, including those by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Griffin, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Published accounts from 1911 to 1935―by Langston Hughes, Juanita Ellsworth, and Caleb Johnson, among others―provide a nuanced view of the contemporary cultural dimensions of race and passing, both in America and abroad. Also included are Larsen’s statements on the novel and on passing, as well as a generous selection of her letters and her central writings on “The Tragic Mulatto(a)” in American literature. Additional perspective is provided by related Harlem Renaissance works. “Criticism” provides fifteen diverse critical interpretations, including those by Mary Helen Washington, Cheryl A. Wall, Deborah E. McDowell, David L. Blackmore, Kate Baldwin, and Catherine Rottenberg. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Table of contents:

Mary Rennels • “Passing” Is a Novel of Longings (April 27, 1929)
Beyond the Color Line (April 28, 1929)
Margaret Cheney Dawson • The Color Line (April 28, 1929)
The Dilemma of Mixed Race: Another Study of the Color-line in New York (May 1, 1929)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson • As in a Looking Glass (May 3, 1929)
W. B. Seabrook • Touch of the Tar-brush (May 18, 1929)
Esther Hyman • Passing (June 1929)
Aubrey Bowser • The Cat Came Back (June 5, 1929)
Mary Griffin • Novel of Race Consciousness (June 23, 1929)
W. E. B. Du Bois • Passing (July 1929)
Passing (July 1929)
Mary Fleming Larabee • Passing (Aug. 1929)
Do They Always Return? (Sept. 28, 1929)
“M. L. H.” • Passing (Dec. 1929)
Passing (Dec. 12, 1929)

CONTEMPORARY COVERAGE OF PASSING AND RACE
When Is a Caucasian Not a Caucasian? (March 2, 1911)
Writer Says Brazil Has No Color Line (Oct. 1925)
Don Pierson • Does It Pay to “Pass?” (Aug. 20, 1927)
Juanita Ellsworth • From White Negroes (May-June 1928)
3,000 Negroes Cross the Line Each Year (July 12, 1928)
Louis Fremont Baldwin • From Negro to Caucasian, Or How the Ethiopian Is Changing His Skin (1929)
Emilie Hahn • Crossing the Color Line (July 28, 1929)
Caleb Johnson • From Crossing the Color Line (Aug. 26, 1931)
75,000 Pass in Philadelphia Every Day (Dec. 19, 1931)
Careful Laughter! He May Be Your Brother (Jan. 21, 1932)
Blonde Girl Was ‘Passing (Jan. 23, 1932)
Virginia Is Still Hounding ‘White’ Negroes Who ‘Pass’

THE RHINELANDER/JONES CASE
Society Youth Weds Cabman’s Daughter (Nov. 14, 1924)
Poor Girl to Fight Hubby’s Parents (Dec. 26, 1924)
From Calls Rhinelander Dupe of Girl He Wed (Nov. 10, 1925)
From Loved Rhinelander, Wife’s Letters Say (Nov. 13, 1925)
From Rhinelander Bares Love Secrets (Nov. 21, 1925)
Archie Morgan • From Kip’s “Soul Message” Notes Read (Nov. 28, 1925)
From Rhinelander Jury Reaches a Decision after Twelve Hours (Dec. 5, 1925)
[Rhinelander Editorial], The Crisis (Jan. 1926)
Rhinelander Gets a Fair Deal (Jan. 26, 1926)
Mrs. Rhinelander to Sail (July 16, 1926)

ABOUT NELLA LARSEN
Thelma E. Berlack • New Author Unearthed Right Here in Harlem (May 23, 1928)
Mary Rennels • Behind the Backs of Books and Authors (April 13, 1929)
[Letter about Nella Larsen] • Jean Blackwell Hutson to Louise Fox (Aug. 1, 1969)
Author’s Statements
[Nella Larsen Imes, Guggenheim Application]
[In Defense of Sanctuary]

Letters
To Carl Van Vechten [1925]
To Charles S. Johnson [Aug. 1926]
To Eddie Wasserman [April 3, 1928]
To Eddie Wasserman [April 5, 1928]
To Dorothy Peterson [n.d.]
To Dorothy Peterson [July 19, 1927]
To Dorothy Peterson [July 21, 1927]
To Dorothy Peterson [Aug. 2, 1927]
To Langston Hughes [n.d.]
To Langston Hughes [1930]
To Carl Van Vechten [April 15, 1929]
To Gertrude Stein (Jan. 26, 1931)
To Carl Van Vechten [May 14, 1932]

THE TRAGIC MULATTO(A)
Lydia Maria Child • The Quadroons
Frank J. Webb • From The Garies and Their Friends
William Wells Brown • From Clotel
Frances E. W. Harper • From Iola Leroy
William Dean Howells • From An Imperative Duty
Kate Chopin • The Father of Desiree’s Baby
Mark Twain • From Pudd’nhead Wilson
Charles Waddell Chesnutt • From The House Behind the Cedars
Georgia Douglas Johnson • The Octoroon
Countee Cullen • Near White
Langston Hughes • Mulatto
Fannie Hurst • From Imitation of Life

SELECTIONS FROM STORIES AND NOVELS OF PASSING: “THE MOMENT OF REGRET”
Frances E. W. Harper • From Iola Leroy
James Weldon Johnson • From The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Walter White • From Flight
Jessie Redmon Fauset • From Plum Bun
George S. Schuyler • From Black No More
Langston Hughes • Passing

SELECTED WRITINGS FROM THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. • The Mulatto to His Critics
Jessie Redmon Fauset • The Sleeper Wakes
Countee Cullen • Heritage
Countee Cullen • Two Who Crossed a Line
W. E. B. Du Bois • Criteria of Negro Art
Nella Larsen [Pseud. Allen Semi] • Freedom
George S. Schuyler • From The Negro-Art Hokum
Carl Van Vechten • From Nigger Heaven
Langston Hughes • Passing for White, Passing for Colored, Passing for Negroes Plus

CRITICISM
Mary Mabel Youman • Nella Larsen’s Passing: A Study in Irony
Claudia Tate • Nella Larsen’s Passing: A Problem of Interpretation
Mary Helen Washington • Nella Larsen: Mystery Woman of the Harlem Renaissance
Cheryl A. Wall • From Passing for What? Aspects of Identity in Nella Larsen’s Novels
Deborah E. McDowell • [From Black Female Sexuality in Passing]
Thadious M. Davis • Nella Larsen’s Harlem Aesthetic
Mark J. Madigan • From Miscegenation and “The Dicta of Race and Class”: The Rhinelander Case and Nella Larsen’s Passing
Jennifer DeVere Brody • Clare Kendry’s “True” Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen’s Passing
Helena Michie • From Sororophobia
Judith Butler • Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen’s Psychoanalytic Challenge
Ann duCille • From Passing Fancies
George Hutchinson • Nella Larsen and the Veil of Race
Kate Baldwin • From The Recurring Conditions of Nella Larsen’s Passing
Gayle Wald • Passing and Domestic Tragedy
Catherine Rottenberg • Passing: Race, Identification, and Desire
Miriam Thaggert • Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case

Nella Larsen: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography by Ruth Blandon, with help from Lucia Hodgson

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