Research Catalog

Title

Approaches to teaching the novels of Nella Larsen / edited by Jacquelyn Y. McLendon.

Publication

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

McLendon, Jacquelyn Y.

Description

viii, 210 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 138

Uniform Title

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 138.

Subject

• Larsen, Nella > Criticism and interpretation
• Larsen, Nella
• American fiction > African American authors > Study and teaching
• Race in literature
• African Americans > Race identity > In literature
• Passing (Identity) in literature
• Gender identity in literature
• Study skills

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Materials / Jacquelyn Y. McLendon -- Approaches. Introduction / Jacquelyn Y. McLendon -- Historical and cultural contexts. Nella Larsen's passing and the literary and legal context of the passing narrative / Martha J. Cutter -- Nella Larsen's modernism / Caresse John -- Helga Crane in West Egg: reading Quicksand and The great Gatsby as a case study in canonicity / Shealeen Meaney -- Whole world of experience and struggle: teaching Nella Larsen as cultural and intellectual women's history / Lyde Sizer -- Nightlife and racial learning in Quicksand / Clark Barwick -- Fiction and the arts. Sounding and being: a resource for teaching musical references and symbolism in Nella Larsen's Quicksand / Gayle M. Murchison -- Nella Larsen and the racial mountain: teaching black musical aesthetics in Passing and Quicksand / Lori Harrison-Kahan -- Nella Larsen and other civilization of imageso: teaching primitivism and expressionism in Quicksand / Cristina Giorcelli -- Identity. Anything might happen: freedom and American identity in Passing / Beryl Satter -- Teaching Passing as a lesbian text / Suzanne Raitt -- Approaching gender in Quicksand / Beth Widmaier Capo -- From my old mano to race men in Quicksand / Richz Richardson -- In the classroom: methods courses, settings. The matter of beginnings: teaching the opening paragraphs in Quicksand and Passing / Steven B. Shively -- Versions of passing / John K. Young -- The uses of biography / George B. Hutchinson -- In some determined e way a little flauntingo: teaching with Nella Larsen' letters / Giulia Fabi and Jacquelyn Y. McLendon -- Teaching Quicksand in Denmark / Martyn Bone -- Teaching Nella Larsen's Passing at an urban community college / Zivah Perel Katz.

Call Number

Sc E 16-1967

ISBN

• 9781603292191
• 1603292195
• 9781603292207
• 1603292209
• 9781603291
• 9789781603297

LCCN

2016002446

OCLC

945693624

Title

Approaches to teaching the novels of Nella Larsen / edited by Jacquelyn Y. McLendon.

Publisher

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 138

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 138.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

McLendon, Jacquelyn Y., editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-1967