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Apr 16, 2024, 17:03 PM
Quicksand (Penguin English Library)
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. 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. Slow, moving and reflective, this is a detailed and evocative portrayal of a biracial woman's inner life.
Nella Larsen
Title : 9780241652657
ISBN : 9780241652657
Publisher : Penguin Classics UK
Pages : 160
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Pub date : Apr 4, 2024, 08:00 AM
C m s pub date : Apr 8, 2024, 08:00 AM
Length : 198
Width : 129
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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. 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. Slow, moving and reflective, this is a detailed and evocative portrayal of a biracial woman's inner life.
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