#passing nella larsen

[pilarsofsalt]

bonus shout out to whatever the fuck I've got going on with myself

[lenucciaurl]

my beige flag is that i keep rereading my own final paper because i can't stop thinking about how fascinating the dichotomy between outness and closeted-ness in nella larsen's passing is and i keep thinking of new points i wish i could've added to my essay but couldn't because it was already 5.5 pages over the limit

[willowpotatox]

I just read Passing by Nella Larsen and this is the gayest shit i’ve ever seen in my life

“For I am lonely, so lonely…cannot help longing to be with you again, as I have never longed for anything before; and I have wanted many things in my life…It’s like an ache, a pain that never ceases…and it’s your fault, ‘Rene dear. At least partly. For I wouldn’t now, perhaps, have this terrible, this wild desire if I hadn’t seen you that time in Chicago.”

[gudvina]

Passing by Nella Larsen has bewildered me!!!

Not only was the writing exquisite, but the clashing symbolism of Irene and Clare's characters is sublime. It's not just their characters and lives, one being the foil of the other, but it goes further than that.

Irene means peace and harmony, and it's extremely important given the fact that her character is symbolised to be in her own box, and expect others to be thus as well, and strives to achieve and maintain who she is, where she stands, and the significance of her name.

Clare means bright, clear. Not only does she have the looks to embody the first, but she has the character and the bearing to bring the latter. Her symbolism is light, and just like it, it can't be contained, which collides with Irene's very essence.

And this is just the characters. I have so many thoughts, so many ideas, and yet this book renders me speechless. Irene's struggle between Clare, herself and race, and the realistic ways it affected her and led her to act were explored in such a way that was, despite it being spread out in roughly 100 pages, detailed and coincise. It was a beautiful read, and I will definitely return to it. I have many thoughts and feelings, but they're all jambled, so this is my- albeit groggy- review.

[macrolit]

Passing Nella Larsen This is 1 of 12 paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.

[5thhorsemnftheapocalypse]

The emotional bond between a gay teen and the literature thier favorite English teacher taught them

[tresbestioles]

And they both would end the same way 🫢

[partialbirthabortion]

this extra at the white ladies meeting in The Help is 100% south asian

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 099

Passing by Nella Larsen

“She wished to find out about this hazardous business of ‘passing,’ this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one’s chance in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.”

[aliteraryprincess]

Recently Read: Passing by Nella Larsen - 4.5 stars

"It's funny about 'passing.' We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and yet we rather admire it. We shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it."

[agnesandhilda]

thinking about when my high school literature teacher made us all sit down and write timed essays on the book we were studying and I was the only one who wrote an essay that got a perfect score. the last criteria everyone else had been missing was "acknowledgement of alternative interpretations" and I got it for including a single sentence aside about how you could read the protagonist's fixation on another woman as romantic if you wanted to (and I did)

[mediamatinees]

Smackdown Pen vs Sword Chapter Three: The Balance Between Loyalty and Jealousy in "Passing"

Smackdown Pen vs Sword Chapter Three: The Balance Between Loyalty and Jealousy in "Passing"

Content Warning: Passing contains racist language, discussions of racial violence, allusions to domestic violence, and murder. Reader discretion is advised. Spoilers for Passing ahead! When you’re in a place of privilege, it’s easy to forget you exist in a bubble. You forget what other people around you have to deal with on a daily basis. Privilege is a strange sensation because you can have…

[bookmuseum]

“I think . . . that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world.”

—Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)

[schoolchaos]

I swear I can never find people hating on a book. Like, every time people mention a book, they're always praising it for something or being neutral to it. No one is ever like "yeah, I hate Charlotte's Web with a fiery passion." If they don't like it, they just don't care about it which, sure, better response than going online and writing five page essays about why a book sucks, but also, now I have no clue if I'm the only person in the world who does not like this book and does not want to read past chapter two.

Anyways, we started reading The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and ohmigod I am sorry but this is why kids hate reading. I have never not wanted to read a book for class as much as I do right now. Give me back Passing by Nella Larsen. Give me back A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Give me back Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. Give me back books that aren't making me procrastinate reading them via posting about how I don't like them on Tumblr.

So yeah I think students should always have a say in what they read in class.

[macrolit]

1929 First Edition of Nella Larsen's Passing. Goodness.

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past--even hiding the truth from her racist husband. Clare finds herself drawn to Irene's sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself--and her deception--into every part of Irene's stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsen's brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to "pass," is as timely as ever.