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Encyclopedia and Summary Information

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Danzy Senna Information
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Danzy Senna, (1970 - ) is an American novelist. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and is the daughter of the author Carl Senna (The Black Press and the Struggle for Civil Rights,) an Afro-Mexican poet, and Fanny Howe [1], an Irish-American[2]. Both...

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News and Journals

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Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)

Danzy Senna Author Talks About How A Thesis Turned Into A Novel, And The Thrill Of Her Book Becoming A City's Reading Choice.(showcase)
01/13/2002: 609 words, approx. 2 pages

Byline: William Wineke About the last thing Danzy Senna expected this winter, as she went about her duties as an English professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., is that she was going to become the literary lion...

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Passing for white, passing for Jewish: mixed race identity in Danzy Senna and Rebecca Walker.
03/22/2005: 12,166 words, approx. 41 pages

Imitation of Life, one of the classic narratives of racial passing, originated as a 1933 novel by Jewish writer Fannie Hurst, but it is perhaps best known as the 1959 melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk. (1) In the sob-inducing finale of the Sirk...

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Criticism and Essays

Literary Criticism

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Caucasia
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[In the following review, Jefferson asserts that Senna's Caucasia is a moving novel which explores fully the implications of being racially or culturally mixed in America.]

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Caucasia
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[In the following review, Yang points out certain flaws in Senna's Caucasia, including sounding too much like a race treatise and problems with time.]

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Caucasia
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[In the following review, Schmidt discusses Birdie's struggle for identity and acceptance in Senna's Caucasia.]

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