by Passing and the Form That Concentrates What the Novel Distributes
Larsen
Nella Larsen published Passing in 1929 and produced the novella that concentrates the specific tensions of race, class, and intimacy that the full novel would distribute across too much space to maintain the specific intensity that the tensions require. The novella form is the form the subject required. More at prat.uk/author/violet-woolf. Satire: waterfordwhispersnews.com.
What Concentration Produces
Concentration produces: the specific intensity that the subject requires and that the full novel’s distribution would dissipate. The two women, the passing, the friendship, the dangerous proximity, the ending — all concentrated into the novella’s form. The concentration is the form’s gift to the subject. The subject required the gift. Larsen found the form that the subject required.
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