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Secondary Bibliography on Nella Larsen

"Nella Larsen (1891-1964)". World Wide Web Resource. <http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/larsen.html >.

Abel, Elizabeth, Barbara Christian, and Helene Moglen. Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Adams, Bronte, and Trudi Tate. That Kind of Woman. 1st pbk. ed. New Yo rk: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1993.

Ahlin, Lena. The "New Negro" In the Old World: Culture and Performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen. Lund Studies in English, 111. Lund, Sweden Stockholm, Sweden: Dept. of English Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University ; Distribution and sales Almqvist & Wiksell, 2006.

Allan, Tuzyline Jita. "The Death of Sex and the Soul in Mrs. Dalloway and Nella Larsen's Passing." Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings. Ed. Eileen --Cramer Barrett, Patricia. Cutting Edge. New York, NY: New York UP, 1997. 95-113.

Allen. Nella Larsen Portrait Collection. graphic, 1925.

Ammons, Elizabeth. Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Andrews, William L. Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Anisimova, Irina. "Masks of Authenticity: Failed Quests for the People in Quicksand by Nella Larsen and the Silver Dove by Andrei Belyi." Comparatist:Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association 32 (2008): 175-92. Print.

Austin, Sushama Meredith Cleva.A Conversation About Nella a Story of Nella Larsen. videorecording, 1998.

Baldwin, Kate. "The Recurring Conditions of Nella Larsen's Passing." theorybuffalo 4 (1998): 50-90.

Balkun, Mary McAleer. The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture. Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006.

Bande, Usha. "'Only Connect' and the Failure to Connect: A Comparative Study of Anita Desai's Sita and Nella Larsen's Helga." Notes on Contemporary Literature 25.2 (1995): 5-7.

Barbeito, Patricia Felisa. "'Making Generations' in Jacobs, Larsen, and Hurston: A Genealogy of Black Women's Writing." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 70.2 (1998): 365-95.

Barnett, Pamela E. "'My Picture of You Is, after All, the True Helga Crane': Portraiture and Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 20.3 (1995): 575-600.

Basu, Biman. "Hybrid Embodiment and an Ethics of Masochism: Nella Larsen's Passing and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose." African American Review 36.3 (2002): 383-401.

Beemyn, Brett. "A Bibliography of Works by and About Nella Larsen." African American Review 26.1 (1992): 183-88.

Bennett, Michael, and Vanessa D. Dickerson. Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representations by African American Women. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

Berg, Allison. Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Berg, Allison, and University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Press. "Mothering the Race

Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930". Champaign, 2002. [x, 186] p. University of Illinois Press. <http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/berg/ Connect to: Mothering the race--women's narratives of reproduction (Online) >.

Bergner, Gwen S. Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, and Psychoanalysis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Bernard, Emily. "Unlike Many Others: Exceptional White Characters in Harlem Renaissance Fiction." Modernism/Modernity 12.3 (2005): 407-23.

Bernier, Emily S. "The Tragic Mulatto and the Divided Self in James Weldon Johnson's the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Nella Larsen's Passing." 1991.

Blackmer, Corinne E. "African Masks and the Arts of Passing in Gertrude Stein's 'Melanctha' and Nella Larsen's Passing." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4.2 (1993): 230-63.

---. "The Veils of the Law: Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing." College Literature 22.3 (1995): 50-67.

---. "The Veils of the Law: Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing." Race-Ing Representation: Voice, History, and Sexuality. Ed. Kostas --Myrsiades Myrsiades, Linda. Culture and Education. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. 98-116.

Blackmore, David L. "'That Unreasonable Restless Feeling': The Homosexual Subtexts of Nella Larsen's Passing." African American Review 26.3 (1992): 475-84.

Bloom, Harold. American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960. Volume Two. Women Writers of English and Their Works. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1997.

---. Black American Prose Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Writers of English. New York: Chelsea House, 1994.

---. Black American Women Fiction Writers. Writers of English. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.

---. The Harlem Renaissance. Bloom's Period Studies. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.

Bontemps, Arna Wendell. The Harlem Renaissance Remembered; Essays. New York,: Dodd Mead, 1972.

Botshon, Lisa, and Meredith Goldsmith. Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.

Boyd-Buggs, Debra, and Joyce Hope Scott. Camel Tracks: Critical Perspectives on Sahelian Literatures. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003.

Braithwaite, William Stanley, et al. "William Stanley Braithwaite Collection, 1899-1939." 2250.

Brickhouse, Anna. "Nella Larsen and the Intertextual Geography of Quicksand." African American Review 35.4 (2001): 533-60.

Brody, Jennifer DeVere. "Clare Kendry's 'True' Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen's Passing." Callaloo: A Journal of African American and African Arts and Letters 15.4 (1992): 1053-65.

Bromell, Nick. "Reading Democratically: Pedagogies of Difference and Practices of Listening in the House of Mirth and Passing." American Literature 81.2 (2009): 281-303. Print.

Brown, Judith. Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2009. Print.

Bunzmann, Katharina. "Bright Pictures of That Other" ; Bright Distortions of the Past [Mikroform]: Female Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Fiction. Mikrofiche-Ausg. ed. Marburg: Tectum-Verl., 1998.

Butler, Judith. "Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen's Psychoanalytic Challenge." Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism. Ed. Elizabeth --Christian Abel, Barbara --Moglen, Helene. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1997. 266-84.

Byrd, R. P. "Charles R Larson, Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen." African American review 30.1 (1996): 127.

Calloway, Licia Morrow. Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, & Fannie Hurst. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

---. Domestic Refineries: Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.

Carr, Brian. "Paranoid Interpretation, Desire's Nonobject, and Nella Larsen's Passing." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119.2 (2004): 282-95.

Caughie, Pamela L. "'Not Entirely Strange, ... Not Entirely Friendly': Passing and Pedagogy." College English 54.7 (1992): 775-93.

Chandler, Karen M. "Nella Larsen's Fatal Polarities: Melodrama and Its Limits in Quicksand." CLA Journal 42.1 (1998): 24-47.

Clark, W. Bedford. "The Heroine of Mixed Blood in Nella Larsen's Quicksand." Identity and Awareness in the Minority Experience: Past and Present. Ed. George E.--Mouser Carter, Bruce L. La Crosse: Inst. for Minority Studies, 1975. 225-38.

Clark, William Bedford. "The Letters of Nella Larsen to Carl Van Vechten: A Survey." Resources for American Literary Study 8 (1978): 193-99.

Clemmen, Yves W. A. "Nella Larsen's Quicksand: A Narrative of Difference." CLA Journal 40.4 (1997): 458-66.

Condâe, Mary. "Passing in the Fiction of Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen." Yearbook of English Studies 24 (1994): 94-104.

Conde, Mary. "Passing in the Fiction of Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen." Yearbook of English Studies 24 (1994): 94-104.

Condé, Mary. "Passing in the Fiction of Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen." Yearbook of English Studies 24 (1994): 94-104.

Cooke, Michael G. Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of Intimacy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Cutter, Martha J. "Sliding Significations: Passing as a Narrative and Textual Strategy in Nella Larsen's Fiction." Passing and the Fictions of Identity. Ed. Elaine K. Ginsberg. New Americanists. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996. 75-100.

Davis, Thadious M. "Nella Larsen." Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. Eds. Trudier Harris and Thadious M. Davis. Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb) Number: 51: 7Letras, Detroit, MI Pagination: 182-92, 1987. xv, 333.

---. Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled. Louisiana pbk. ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

---. Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1994.

---. "Nella Larsen's Harlem Aesthetic." The Harlem Renaissance: Revaluations. Ed. Amritjit --Shiver Singh, William S. --Brodwin, Stanley. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities

Critical Studies on Black Life and Culture. New York: Garland, 1989. 245-56.

Dawahare, Anthony. "The Gold Standard of Racial Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 52.1 (2006): 22-31.

Dean, Sharon, and Erlene Stetson. "Flower-Dust and Springtime: Harlem Renaissance Women." Radical Teacher: A Newsjournal of Socialist Theory and Practice 18 (1980): 1-8.

Debo, Annette. "Changing Cultural Scripts: Nella Larsen's Passing and the Reconstruction of Modernism." In Process: A Graduate Student Journal of African-American and African Diasporan Literature and Culture 1 (1996): 36-52.

DeFalco, Amelia. "Jungle Creatures and Dancing Apes: Modern Primitivism and Nella Larsen's Quicksand." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 38.2 (2005): 19-35.

Dittmar, Linda. "When Privilege Is No Protection: The Woman Artist in Quicksand and the House of Mirth." Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture. Ed. Suzanne W. Jones. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991. 133-54.

Doyle, Laura. "Transnationalism at Our Backs: A Long View of Larsen, Woolf, and Queer Racial Subjectivity in Atlantic Modernism." Modernism/Modernity 13.3 (2006): 531-59.

duCille, Ann. "Blues Notes on Black Sexuality: Sex and the Texts of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3.3 (1993): 418-44.

Elbert, Sarah. "Reading the Unwritten War: Renaissance Tales. Nella Larsen's Passing and Louisa May Alcott's 'M. L.', 'My Contraband', and 'an Hour'." Irish Journal of American Studies 2.1 (1993): 34-127.

Elkins, Marilyn. "Expatriate Afro-American Women as Exotics." International Women's Writing: New Landscapes of Identity. Ed. Anne E. --Gooze Brown, Marjanne E. Contributions in Women's Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995. 264-73.

Ellmann, Maud. "Drawing the Blind: Gide, Joyce, Larsen and the Modernist Short Story." Oxford Literary Review 26 (2004): 31-61.

English, Daylanne. "W. E. B. Dubois's Family Crisis." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 72.2 (2000): 291-319.

Esteve, Mary. The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ; 135. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

---. "Nella Larsen's 'Moving Mosaic': Harlem, Crowds, and Anonymity." American Literary History 9.2 (1997): 268-86.

Fabre, Geneviève, and Michel Feith. Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Fabre, Geneviève, Michel Feith, and Ebook Library. "Temples for Tomorrow Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance". Bloomington, 2001. c

Favor, J. Martin. "Building Black: Constructions of Multiple African American Subject Positions in Novels by James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen and George S. Schuyler." 1993.

Fleming, Robert E. "The Influence of Main Street on Nella Larsen's Quicksand." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 31.3 (1985): 547-53.

Fout, John C., and Maura Shaw Tantillo. American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race since the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Gable, Craig. Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

Gates, Henry Louis, and Nellie Y. McKay. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.

Ginsberg, Elaine K. Passing and the Fictions of Identity. New Americanists. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.

Giorcelli, Cristina. "Intertextuality in Nella Larsen's Passing." Letterature d'America: Rivista Trimestrale 21.86 (2001): 127-47.

Goldsmith, Meredith. "Edith Wharton's Gift to Nella Larsen: The House of Mirth and Quicksand." Edith Wharton Review 11.2 (1994): 3-5, 15.

---. "Shopping to Pass, Passing to Shop: Bodily Self-Fashioning in the Fiction of Nella Larsen." Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representations by African American Women. Ed. Michael --Dickerson Bennett, Vanessa D. --Peterson, Carla L. (foreword). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2000. 97-120.

---. "Shopping to Pass, Passing to Shop: Consumer Self-Fashioning in the Fiction of Nella Larsen." Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s. Eds. Lisa Botshon, Meredith Goldsmith and Joan Shelley Rubin: Northeastern UP, Boston, MA Pagination: 263-90, 2003. xvii, 301.

Goodspeed-Chadwick, Julie. "Sexual and Identity Politics in Nella Larsen's Passing: Woman as Commodity." Griot: Official Journal of the Southern Conference on Afro- American Studies, Inc. 22.2 (2003): 99-104.

Gray, Jeffrey. "Essence and the Mulatto Traveler: Europe as Embodiment in Nella Larsen's Quicksand." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 27.3 (1994): 257-70.

Grayson, Deborah R. "Fooling White Folks: Or, How I Stole the Show: The Body Politics of Nella Larsen's Passing." Bucknell Review: A Scholarly Journal of Letters, Arts and Sciences 39.1 (1995): 27-37.

Gutjahr, Paul C., and Megan Benton. Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.

Hamer, Judith A., and Martin J. Hamer. Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. 1st ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994.

Hanlon, Christopher. "The Pleasures of Passing and the Real of Race." Journal x: A Journal in Culture and Criticism 5.1-2 (2000): 23-36.

Hardwig, Bill. "'a Lack Somewhere': Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Quicksand." Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 80.4 (1997): 573-89.

Hardy, P. Stephen, and Sheila Jackson Hardy. Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance. Extraordinary People. New York: Children's Press, 2000.

Harris, Trudier, and Thadious M. Davis. Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. Dictionary of Literary Biography ; V. 51. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1987.

Harrison-Kahan, Lori. "Her 'Nig': Returning the Gaze of Nella Larsen's Passing." Modern Language Studies 32.2 (2002): 109-38.

Haviland, Beverly. "Passing from Paranoia to Plagiarism: The Abject Authorship of Nella Larsen." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 43.2 (1997): 295-318.

Herget, Winfried, and Alfred Hornung. Religion in African-American Culture. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006.

Hering, Frank. "Sneaking Around: Idealized Domesticity, Identity Politics, and Games of Friendship in Nella Larsen's Passing." Arizona Quarterly 57.1 (2001): 35-60.

Hinnov, Emily M. "Teaching Nella Larsen's Quicksand." Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies. Ed. Soto, Michael. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2008. xvii, 247 pp. Print.

Horton, Merrill. "Blackness, Betrayal, and Childhood: Race and Identity in Nella Larsen's Passing." College Language Association Journal 28.1 (1994): 31-45.

Hostetler, Ann E. "The Aesthetics of Race and Gender in Nella Larsen's Quicksand." PMLA 105.1 (1990): 35-46.

Howard, Lillie P. "'a Lack Somewhere': Nella Larsen's Quicksand and the Harlem Renaissance." The Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined. Ed. Victor A. Kramer. Georgia State Lit. Studies. New York: Ams, 1987. 223-33.

Howes, Kelly King, and Christine Slovey. Harlem Renaissance. Detroit: U X L, 2001.

Hutchinson, George. In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

---. "Nella Larsen and the Veil of Race." American Literary History 9.2 (1997): 329-49.

---. "Quicksand and the Racial Labyrinth." Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 80.4 (1997): 543-71.

---. "Subject to Disappearance: Interracial Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand." Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. Geneviáeve --Feith Fabre, Michel. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2001. 177-92.

Jarrett, Gene Andrew. African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Jenkins, Candice M. "Decoding Essentialism: Cultural Authenticity and the Black Bourgeoisie in Nella Larsen's Passing." MELUS 30.3 (2005): 129-54.

Johnson, Barbara. The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

---. "Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and the Accused." Media Spectacles. Ed. Marjorie --Matlock Garber, Jann --Walkowitz, Rebecca L. New York: Routledge, 1993. 160-66.

---. "The Quicksands of the Self: Nella Larsen and Heinz Kohut." Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism. Ed. Elizabeth --Christian Abel, Barbara --Moglen, Helene. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1997. 252-65.

---. "The Quicksands of the Self: Nella Larsen and Heinz Kohut." Telling Facts: History and Narration in Psychoanalysis. Ed. Joseph H. --Morris Smith, Humphrey. Psychiatry and the Humanities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992. 184-99.

---. "The Quicksands of the Self: Nella Larsen and Heinz Kohut." Psychiatry and the humanities 13 (1992): 184-99.

Joyce, Joyce Ann. Warriors, Conjurers and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism. 1st ed. Chicago: Third World Press, 1994.

Kaplan, Carla. "Undersirable Desire: Citizenship and Romance in Modern American Fiction." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 43.1 (1997): 144-69.

Kaup, Monika, and Debra J. Rosenthal. Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Knadler, Stephen. "Domestic Violence in the Harlem Renaissance: Remaking the Record from Nella Larsen's Passing to Toni Morrison's Jazz." African American Review 38.1 (2004): 99-118.

Knopf-Newman, Marcy Jane. The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993.

Krafton, Kathleen Casey. "Nella Larsen and the Harlem Renaissance." AB bookman's weekly 97.12 (1996): 1057.

Kramer, Victor A., and Robert A. Russ. Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined. Rev. and expanded ed. Troy, N.Y.: Whitson Pub., 1997.

Lackey, Michael. African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Sociocultural Dynamics of Faith. The History of African-American Religions. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007.

---. "Larsen's Quicksand." Explicator 59.2 (2001): 103-06.

Landry, H. Jordan. "Seeing Black Women Anew through Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen's Passing." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 60.1 (2006): 25-52.

Larsen, Nella. Passing. Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.

---. Passing. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.

---. Passing. New York ; London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.

---. Quicksand. New York ; London: A.A. Knopf, 1928.

Larsen, Nella, and Thadious M. Davis. Quicksand. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.

Larsen, Nella, and Carla Kaplan. Passing: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, About Nella Larsen, Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.

Larsen, Nella, and Charles R. Larson. An Intimation of Things Distant: The Collected Fiction of Nella Larsen. New York: Anchor Books, 1992.

Larsen, Nella, Charles R. Larson, and Marita Golden. The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen. Anchor Books ed. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

Larsen, Nella, Deborah E. McDowell, and Nella Larsen. Quicksand ; and, Passing. American Women Writers Series. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

---. Quicksand. Dover Books on Literature and Drama. Dover ed. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2006.

Larsen, Nella, and Claudia Tate. "Desire and Death in Quicksand." American literary history 7.2 (1995): 27.

Larson, Charles R. Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer & Nella Larsen. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1993.

Lay, Mary M. "Parallels: Henry James's the Portrait of a Lady and Nella Larsen's Quicksand." College Language Association Journal 20 (1977): 475-86.

Lee, Valerie. The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women's Literature. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.

Lewis, David L. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. New York: Viking, 1994.

Lewis, Jenene. "Women as Commodity: Confronting Female Sexuality in Quicksand and the Awakening." MAWA Review 12.2 (1997): 51-62.

Lewis, Thabiti, and Willamette University. African American Life and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Salem, Or.: Willamette Univeristy, 2006.

Lewis, Vashti Crutcher. "Nella Larsen's Use of the near-White Female in Quicksand and Passing." Perspectives of Black Popular Culture. Ed. Harry B. Shaw. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1990. 36-45.

Little, Jonathan. "Nella Larsen's Passing: Irony and the Critics." African American Review 26.1 (1992): 173-82.

Loffler, Marie-Louise. "'Children Aren't Everything': Maternal Ambivalences in Nella Larsen's Fiction." COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 9 (2008): (no pagination). Print.

Lunde, Arne, and Anna Westerstahl Stenport. "Helga Crane's Copenhagen: Denmark, Colonialism, and Transnational Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand." Comparative Literature 60.3 (2008): 228-43. Print.

Lutes, Jean Marie. "Making up Race: Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and the African American Cosmetics Industry." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 58.1 (2002): 77-108.

Madigan, Mark J. "Miscegenation and 'the Dicta of Race and Class': The Rhinelander Case and Nella Larsen's Passing." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 36.4 (1990): 523-29.

---. "'Then Everything Was Dark'?: The Two Endings of Nella Larsen's Passing." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 83.4 (1989): 521-23.

Major, Clarence. Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories. 1st ed. New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 1993.

Maness Mehaffy, Marilyn. "Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen by Charles R Larson." American literature 66.4 (1994): 853.

Margolies, Edward. New York and the Literary Imagination: The City in Twentieth Century Fiction and Drama. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. Print.

McCaskill, Barbara. "The Folklore of the Coasts in Black Women's Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance." College Language Association Journal 39.3 (1996): 273-301.

McCoy, Beth. "Perpetua(L) Notion: Typography, Economy, and Losing Nella Larsen." Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation. Ed. Paul C. --Benton Gutjahr, Margaret L. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2001. 97-114.

McCoy, Beth A. "Speaking of Dedications: Carl Van Vechten and Nella Larsen." Intertexts 8.1 (2004): 37-54.

McDonald, C. Ann. "Nella Larsen (1891-1964)." American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Laurie Champion. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 182-91.

McDowell, Deborah E. "The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1995.

---. "'That Nameless ... Shameful Impulse': Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing." Black Feminist Criticism and Critical Theory. Ed. Joe --Baker Weixlmann, Houston A., Jr. Studies in Black Amer. Lit. Greenwood, FL: Penkevill, 1988. 139-67.

McLendon, Jacquelyn Y. The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.

---. "Self-Representation and Art in the Novels of Nella Larsen." Redefining Autobiography in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction: An Essay Collection. Ed. Janice --Hall Morgan, Colette T. --Snyder, Carol L. --Hite, Molly (fwd.). Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. Gender & Genre in Literature. New York: Garland, 1991. 149-68.

McLendon, J. Y. "Thadious M Davis, Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled." African American review 30.3 (1996): 478.

McMahan, Elizabeth, Susan Day, and Robert Funk. Nine Short Novels by American Women. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

McMillan, T. S. "Passing Beyond: The Novels of Nella Larsen." West Virginia University Philological Papers 38 (1992): 134-46.

Miller, Erica M. The Other Construction: Where Violence and Womanhood Meet in the Writings of Ida B. Wells-Barnet, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Nella Larsen. Garland Studies in African American History and Culture. New York: Garland Pub., 1999.

Miller, Ericka M. The Other Construction: Where Violence and Womanhood Meet in the Writings of Wells-Barnet, Grimke, and Larsen. Studies in African American History and Culture. New York: Garland Pub., 2000.

Monda, Kimberly. "Self-Delusion and Self-Sacrifice in Nella Larsen's Quicksand." African American Review 31.1 (1997): 23-39.

Mullen, Bill. Revolutionary Tales: African American Women's Short Stories, from the First Story to the Present. New York, N.Y.: Laurel, 1995.

Muzak, Joanne. "'the Things Which Money Could Give': The Politics of Consumption in Nella Larsen's Quicksand." Agora: An Online Graduate Journal 2.1 (2003): 1-18.

Myrsiades, Kostas, and Linda S. Myrsiades. Race-Ing Representation: Voice, History, and Sexuality. Culture and Education Series. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998.

Nelson, Emmanuel S. "Nella Larsen (1891-1964)." African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. (ed. and preface) Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 316-23.

Newman, Richard. "Two Letters from Nella Larsen." Biblion: The Bulletin of The New York Public Library 2.2 (1994): 124-29.

---. Words Like Freedom: Essays on African-American Culture and History. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1996.

Newton, Adam Zachary. "Incognito Ergo Sum: 'Ex' Marks the Spot in Cahan, Johnson, Larsen, and Yezierska." Race and the Modern Artist. Eds. Heather Hathaway, Josef Jarab and Jeffrey Melnick. W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Series (Wdbis): Oxford UP, Oxford, England Pagination: 140-84, 2003. xiii, 266.

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