Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen

African American Review, Spring, 1996 by Rudolph P. Byrd

While there are many moments in Invisible Darkness which resist caricature and the reduction of the materials of tragedy into melodrama, as a biographer Larson fails to rise above certain biases in the final movements of his readable biography. In Kerman and Eldridge's The Lives of Jean Toomer and Thadious M.

Davis's Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled fairness and compassion in the rendering of the lives of Toomer and Larsen are in greater evidence.

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