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Contributor(s): Larsen, Nella (Author), Kaplan, Carla (Editor)
ISBN: 0393932427     ISBN-13: 9780393932423
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $21.85  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | American - African American
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2019019859
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 8.4" (0.70 lbs) 328 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

  • Nella Larsen's stunning 1928 novel, accompanied by Carla Kaplan's full and far-reaching introduction and explanatory annotations.
  • Twenty-seven carefully chosen reviews of one of the Harlem Renaissance's most sensational literary debuts as well as contemporary biographical and cultural contexts.
  • Related writings by Nella Larsen repudiating racial stereotypes.
  • Major critical assessments by Laura Doyle, Ann duCille, Lori Harrison-Kahan, Arne Lunde and Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Deborah McDowell, Hanna Musiol, Susan M. Reverby, and Cherene Sherrard-Johnson.
  • A chronology and a selected bibliography.

About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Contributor Bio(s): Kaplan, Carla: - Carla Kaplan is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, and Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (forthcoming). She is also editor of Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk Tales from the Gulf States and Dark Symphony and Other Works by Elizabeth Laura Adams.