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.
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