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Title: Passing by Nella Larsen, Thadious M. Davis ISBN: 0-14-243727-1 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Passing: A novel about women and their relationships
Comment: Passing, written by African American author Nella Larsen during the 1920's is an often overlooked novel that explores not only racial tensions between Blacks and Whites in that period, and the problems solely within the African American community, but also more deeply examines the relationship of two women best friends reunited after many years. Larsen, in this novel laid the groundwork for many later African American women writers with her exploration of the relationship between two intelligent black women, virtually unprecedented in the white male dominated literature world of the early 20th century
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: Does skin color still matter? Welcome to a world, not too long ago, when it did matter. To get out of the hot sun one day, a fair skinned black woman walks into an upscale cafe and orders a coffee, forgetting to mention that she is black and this is the 1920s in America. Civil Rights are still forty years away, and all cafes, like everything else in the country, are segregated; blacks go here, whites go there. She has crossed the color line, but is so fair that no one even notices. Then she hears her name being called. It is someone from her past, her black past, someone who knows her true ethnicity. Someone who is also passing. But where the protagonist is only passing to get out of the sun for a few minutes, she discovers that her old friend whom she hasn't seen in years now LIVES her entire life as white and has in fact married a white man, who does not know her true ethnicity. Wow. This book raises many interesting questions as it explores black pride and the true nature of race relations in America. A must read.
Rating: 5
Summary: More that appears on the surface
Comment: Written in 1929, Passing is a story of two friends, both of whom are African Americans but are so light-skinned that they can pass for white. Clare chooses to do so, cuts herself off from past relationships, while her friend Irene, chooses to remain within the culture of her birth, married a black man and gives birth to 2 sons. Clare's choice is complicated when she married a white bigot who has no suspicion of his wife's origins. Irene's is complicated by her desire to put the violence of her racial past behind her.
By chance, the two women meet again, and hypnotic, powerful Clare moves into Irene's circle in ways that threaten both of their lives. More than a story of passing, hypocrisy, and adultery, Passing is a complex story of origins, history, and acceptance.
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Title: M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang ISBN: 0452272599 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Black No More : A Novel by George Schuyler ISBN: 037575380X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 29 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ISBN: 0060931418 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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