White Lies
James Campbell: Nella Larsen, 5 October 2006
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Colour Line
by George Hutchinson.
Harvard, 611 pp., £25.95, June 2006,0 674 02180 0 Show More
by George Hutchinson.
Harvard, 611 pp., £25.95, June 2006,
“... said Henry Porter was a Negro.’ In the version that was finally published, this was altered to read ‘was an illegitimate’ – making nonsense of many passages that follow. (The original distinction survives in the French translation, Ciel de nuit: ‘avait du sang nègre’.) In his posthumous memoir, Kafka Was the Rage (1993), Broyard avoids referring ... ”