Quicksand
of Nella Larsen, Thadious M. Davis (Editor)
Description
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence. Quicksand , Nella Larsen's powerful first novel, has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture of the 1920s. It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 192 pages
- Publisher Penguin Classics
- Publication Date January 29th 2002
- First Publication 10/30/28
- Language English
- ISBN 9780141181271
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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