Clare
jhkjgkjgkjghjgghhgjhgjhgjhgjhgjhgjhgjAn experimental novel that interrogates the intersections of race and gender in American constructions of legal and cultural identity. The main character, Clare Kendry (a reference to a character in Nella Larsen’s Passing), first appears as a wealthy “mulatto” circa 1800 who decides to pass as white; drawing on the narrative structure of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, the novel follows Clare over the course of two hundred years, finding him a white woman at the turn of the 21st Century. The poetics of the novel, and the interest in the liminal spaces of national identity, owe a debt to Amos Oz’s The Same Sea.An experimental novel that interrogates the intersections of race and gender in American constructions of legal and cultural identity. The main character, Clare Kendry (a reference to a character in Nella Larsen’s Passing), first appears as a wealthy “mulatto” circa 1800 who decides to pass as white; drawing on the narrative structure of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, the novel follows Clare over the course of two hundred years, finding him a white woman at the turn of the 21st Century. The poetics of the novel, and the interest in the liminal spaces of national identity, owe a debt to Amos Oz’s The Same Sea.
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Clare
An experimental novel that interrogates the intersections of race and gender in American constructions of legal and cultural identity. The main character, Clare Kendry (a reference to a character in Nella Larsen’s Passing), first appears as a wealthy “mulatto” circa 1800 who decides to pass as white; drawing on the narrative structure of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, the novel follows Clare over the course of two hundred years, finding him a white woman at the turn of the 21st Century. The poetics of the novel, and the interest in the liminal spaces of national identity, owe a debt to Amos Oz’s The Same Sea.An experimental novel that interrogates the intersections of race and gender in American constructions of legal and cultural identity. The main character, Clare Kendry (a reference to a character in Nella Larsen’s Passing), first appears as a wealthy “mulatto” circa 1800 who decides to pass as white; drawing on the narrative structure of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, the novel follows Clare over the course of two hundred years, finding him a white woman at the turn of the 21st Century. The poetics of the novel, and the interest in the liminal spaces of national identity, owe a debt to Amos Oz’s The Same Sea.
Clare
An experimental novel that interrogates the intersections of race and gender in American constructions of legal and cultural identity. The main character, Clare Kendry (a reference to a character in Nella Larsen’s Passing), first appears as a wealthy “mulatto” circa 1800 who decides to pass as white; drawing on the narrative structure of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, the novel follows Clare over the course of two hundred years, finding him a white woman at the turn of the 21st Century. The poetics of the novel, and the interest in the liminal spaces of national identity, owe a debt to Amos Oz’s The Same Sea.