Ashley C. Barnes

Fake It If You Can’t Make It: Nella Larsen and the Ideal of Autonomy

Abstract This article argues for Nella Larsen’s theory of art by reading her two major novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), in the light cast back by her last publication, the plagiarized story “Sanctuary” (1930). In this reading, “Sanctuary” is a perverse tribute to the...