This 6 page paper should assess Nella Larsen’s novel “Passing” as a post-modern text. The modern period was one of experimentation with form and content, and produced new ways of seeing and thinking in a world that had begun to question tradition. As a movement, modernism was also concerned with the value and purpose of human existence in a world which was perceived as alienating, hostile and unstable. (For example: T.S. Eliot’s view of this world takes shape in “The Waste Land,” a poem portraying a world which can only offer “a heap of broken images” to replace the customs of the bygone world.) As religion and morality retreated, what took their place made the world a different place where mass destruction and repeatable horror became thinkable. In your paper, you should find some theme that you can follow through at least one literary work, and discuss how this post-modernist work expresses some aspect of its cultural moment. The thesis statement for this paper might look like, Nella Larsen’s novel Passing exemplifies a new way of thinking about ____________ by creating a literary treatment of __________.” Must include at least 1 academic article.