EAN: 9780141181271

NELLA LARSEN - GEBRAUCHT QUICKSAND (PENGUIN TWE...

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.  "Fine 
thoughtful and courageous. It is  on the whole  the best piece of fiction that Negro America
has produced since the heyday of (Charles) Chesnutt." (W. E. B. Du Bois)

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