Passing

Passing

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Beschreibung

Nella Larsen’s fascinating exploration of race and identity—the inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.

This Signet Classics edition of Passing includes an Introduction by Brit Bennett, the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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.
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Beunruhigend. Für mich eine sehr fremde Welt, überraschende Sprache. Und das Ende ein Schock.

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There’s so much negativity towards white passing people and how they used their light skin to ensure they’re safety, but it has to be jealously and colorism that influences that. They could not choose if they were white passing, and they chose to use that privilege to make sure they wouldn’t be hurt. Yes, it sucks that not everybody has that same privilege, but I’m all for people doing what they need to do to live. Also, the way that fetishization was described was absolutely perfect.

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Like a lot of modern american the end is the best part!!!! kinda reminiscent of ethan frome

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