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Seeing Black Women Anew through Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen's Passing

2006; Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association; Volume: 60; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/4143877

1939-9014

Hilton Landry,

Literature: history, themes, analysis

B eginning in the 1910s and 1920s, a series of novels advocate that African Americans commit themselves to as bell hooks calls African-American ethnic pride (9-10).' By loving blackness, the novels promise, African Americans will advance African-American culture, overcome internalized racism, and achieve emotional stability.2 Together, these novels create a powerful, early 20th-century discourse about embracing ethnic pride and resisting assimilation into white culture.