{"title":"\"Anything Might Happen\": Spatial Metaphor, Instability, and Escape in Nella Larsen's Passing","authors":"Anna Ziering","doi":"10.1353/arq.2023.a899699","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the first queer and trans phenomenological reading of Nella Larsen's Passing, I argue that Clare's radical potential is sustained by and past the novel's end. I make this argument through two central interventions: the theorization of a new amalgamated analytic of instability, and a close reading of Passing for the radical politics this amalgamation makes visible. I read Clare's passage through the window as sustaining her radical potential through the textually unconfirmed nature of her presumed death and its violation of the physical laws Larsen employs as symbols.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"79 1","pages":"115 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arizona Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2023.a899699","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In the first queer and trans phenomenological reading of Nella Larsen's Passing, I argue that Clare's radical potential is sustained by and past the novel's end. I make this argument through two central interventions: the theorization of a new amalgamated analytic of instability, and a close reading of Passing for the radical politics this amalgamation makes visible. I read Clare's passage through the window as sustaining her radical potential through the textually unconfirmed nature of her presumed death and its violation of the physical laws Larsen employs as symbols.
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Arizona Quarterly publishes scholarly essays on American literature, culture, and theory. It is our mission to subject these categories to debate, argument, interpretation, and contestation via critical readings of primary texts. We accept essays that are grounded in textual, formal, cultural, and theoretical examination of texts and situated with respect to current academic conversations whilst extending the boundaries thereof.
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