@article{321651,
      author = {Hutchinson, George,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/321651},
      title = {In search of Nella Larsen : a biography of the color line  /},
      publisher = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,},
      abstract = {Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook  in one of the Western Hemisphereʾs most infamous vice  districts, Nella Larsen (1891-1964) lived her life in the  shadows of Americaʾs racial divide. She wrote about that  life, was briefly celebrated in her time, then was lost to  later generations-only to be rediscovered and hailed by  many as the best black novelist of her generation. In his  search for Nell Larsen, the ʺmystery woman of the Harlem  Renaissance,ʺ George Hutchinson exposes the truths and  half-truths surrounding this central figure of modern  literary studies, as well as the complex reality they mask  and mirror. His book is a cultural biography of the color  line as it was lived by one person who truly embodied all  of its ambiguities and complexities. We see Larsen vividly  as an often tormented modernist, from the trauma of her  childhood to her emergence as a star of the Harlem  Renaissance. Showing the links between her experiences and  her writings, Hutchinson illuminates the singularity of her  achievement and shatters previous notions of her position  in the modernist landscape. Revealing the suppressions and  misunderstandings that accompany the effort to separate  black from white, his book addresses the vast consequences  for all Americans of color-line cultureʾs fundamental  rule: race trumps family. Book jacket.},
      recid = {321651},
      pages = {x, 611 p. :},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      year = {2006},
}