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Passing (Hardcover)
Nella Larsen; Introduction by Emily Bernard; Notes by Thadious M. Davis
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The powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of
racial identity that continues to resonate today, with an
introduction by Emily Bernard. A Penguin Vitae Edition Clare Kendry
is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she
is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American
heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to
pass as a white woman. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield,
just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African
American community, and is simultaneously allured and repelled by
Clare's risky decision to engage in racial masquerade for personal
and societal gain. After frequenting African American-centric
gatherings together in Harlem, Clare's interest in Irene turns into
a homoerotic longing for Irene's black identity that she abandoned
and can never embrace again, and she is forced to grapple with her
decision to pass for white in a way that is both tragic and
telling. Penguin Classics launches a new hardcover series with five
American classics that are relevant and timeless in their power,
and part of a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and
nonfiction from almost seventy-five years of classics publishing.
Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics
that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new
readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration,
intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
Though one of America's best known and loved novels, Mark Twain's
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "has often been the object of
fierce controversy because of its racist language and reliance on
racial stereotypes. This collection of fifteen essays by prominent
African American scholars and critics examines the novel's racist
elements and assesses the degree to which Twain's ironies succeed
or fail to turn those elements into a satirical attack on racism.
Ranging from the laudatory to the openly hostile, these essays
include personal impressions of "Huckleberry Finn," descriptions of
classroom experience with the book, evaluations of its ironic and
allegorical aspects, explorations of its nineteenth-century
context, and appraisal of its effects on twentieth-century African
American writers. Among the issues the authors contend with are
Twain's pervasive use of the word "nigger," his portrayal of the
slave Jim according to the conventions of the minstrel show
"darky," and the thematic chaos created by the "evasion" depicted
in the novel's final chapters.
Sure to provoke thought and stir debate, "Satire or Evasion?"
provides a variety of new perspectives on one of this country's
most troubling classics.
"Contributors. "Richard K. Barksdale, Bernard W. Bell, Mary Kemp
Davis, Peaches M. Henry, Betty Harris Jones, Rhett S. Jones, Julius
Lester, Donnarae MacCann, Charles H. Nichols, Charles H. Nilon,
Arnold Rampersad, David L. Smith, Carmen Dubryan, John H. Wallace,
Kenny Jackson Williams, Fredrick Woodard
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original,
interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African
American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian
studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from
around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of
"border crossings" and represent important contributions to the
discourses on modernity, diasporic mobility, populism, migration,
exile, sub-nation, trans-nation, as well as the formation of
nationalities, communities, and identities. Borders, in these
contexts, signify social and national inequities and hierarchies
and also the ways to challenge and transgress entrenched barriers
sanctioned by habit, custom, and law. The volume also honors and
celebrates the life and work of Amritjit Singh as a teacher,
mentor, author, scholar, and editor over half a century.
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