@inbook{c5416c5650ea49b9b4d422cfb82dbb11,
title = "Imitation, Racialization, and Interpretive Norms: Nella Larsen's {"}Plagiarized{"} Story in The Forum",
abstract = "Nella Larsen was one of the most promising young writers of the Harlem Renaissance when her story “Sanctuary” appeared in The Forum in January 1930. It proved to be her last publication. Readers soon wrote to the journal, noting the similarities between “Sanctuary” and “Mrs. Adis,” a story by the popular British writer Sheila Kaye-Smith.¹ As scholars have increasingly acknowledged, these similarities go beyond structure, plot, and theme to verbal echoes that indicate a direct connection between the two texts. When Larsen{\textquoteright}s work began to be reclaimed for literary study in the 1970s and 1980s, and especially since Anna Brickhouse{\textquoteright}s...",
keywords = "American literature, 1900-1999, Larsen, Nella (1893-1963), 'Sanctuary', short story, African American women writers, The Forum (1886-1930), paratext, racism, black-white relations, plagiarism, Kaye-Smith, Sheila (1887-1956), 'Mrs. Adis', English literature",
author = "Barbara Hochman",
year = "2019",
month = may,
doi = "10.2307/j.ctvgs08p1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780299321505",
series = "The History of Print and Digital Culture",
publisher = "University of Wisconsin Press",
pages = "199--217",
editor = "{Senchyne }, Jonathan and Fielder, {Brigitte }",
booktitle = "Against a Sharp White Background",
address = "United States",
}