Quicksand Paperback - 2002
by Nella Larsen; Thadious M. Davis (Editor); Introduction by Thadious M. Davis
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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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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- Title Quicksand
- Author Nella Larsen; Thadious M. Davis (Editor); Introduction by Thadious M. Davis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-01-29
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780141181271 / 0141181273
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.04 x 0.52 in (19.76 x 12.80 x 1.32 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Racially mixed people, Bildungsromans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001054863
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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