Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of
the Western Hemisphere's most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen
(1891-1964) lived her life in the shadows of America's racial
divide. She wrote about that life, was briefly celebrated in her
time, then was lost to later generations--only to be rediscovered
and hailed by many as the best black novelist of her generation. In
his search for Nella Larsen, the "mystery woman of the Harlem
Renaissance," George Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths
surrounding this central figure of modern literary studies, as well
as the complex reality they mask and mirror. His book is a cultural
biography of the color line as it was lived by one person who truly
embodied all of its ambiguities and complexities.
Author of a landmark study of the Harlem Renaissance,
Hutchinson here produces the definitive account of a life long
obscured by misinterpretations, fabrications, and omissions. He
brings Larsen to life as an often tormented modernist, from the
trauma of her childhood to her emergence as a star of the Harlem
Renaissance. Showing the links between her experiences and her
writings, Hutchinson illuminates the singularity of her achievement
and shatters previous notions of her position in the modernist
landscape. Revealing the suppressions and misunderstandings that
accompany the effort to separate black from white, his book
addresses the vast consequences for all Americans of color-line
culture's fundamental rule: race trumps family.
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