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Faulkner’s Harlem Renaissance

November 20, 2013 This past week I was teaching Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing.  I’d never assigned them before,  but they couldn’t have been better — for my “Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner” class. How else to contextualize Light in August?  Not … Continue reading

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