Passing / by Nella Larsen.

• Part One. Encounter -- Part Two. Re-encounter -- Part Three. Finale.

• Passing confronts the reality of racial passing. The novel focuses on two childhood friends Clare and Irene, both of whom are light skinned enough to pass as white, who have reconnected with one another after many years apart. Clare has chosen to pass while Irene has embraced her racial heritage and become an important member of her community. 

Ämnesord

African American women  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Racially mixed people  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Identity (Psychology)  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Passing (Identity)  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Female friendship  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Human skin color  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Married women  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

African American women.  (fast)

Female friendship.  (fast)

Human skin color.  (fast)

Identity (Psychology)  (fast)

Married women.  (fast)

Passing (Identity)  (fast)

Racially mixed people.  (fast)

New York (N.Y.)  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

New York (State)  -- New York. (fast)

Genre

Psychological fiction.  (fast)

Psychological fiction.  (lcgft)

Fiction.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PS3523.A7225 (LCC)

813/.52 (DDC)