“Passing and Quicksand: A Norton Critical Edition Speakers Series”

Hosted by Carla Kaplan on March 27th, 2025

Join editor Carla Kaplan (Northeastern University) for a discussion of why Nella Larsen's novels have endured as often taught and read works in the decades following the peak of the Harlem Renaissance!

In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professor Kaplan.

Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.

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Carla Kaplan is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, and Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (forthcoming). She is also editor of Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk Tales from the Gulf States and Dark Symphony and Other Works by Elizabeth Laura Adams.

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