Quicksand
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.72 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1891396994 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 132 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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B. It is, on the whole, the best piece of fiction that Negro America has produced since the heyday of Charles Chesnutt." —W. "Fine, thoughtful and courageous. E. Du Bois
The Reader daryle brooks Quicksand made me think and reflect on my spiritual beliefs. I decided that I may not have all the answers about God, but in the words of my grandmother, before I take it back, I'll add more to it! God has really been good to me! The comfort and support of my God is worth the ups and downs as well as the ins and outs of learning the true nature of my Lord and savior.. Quiet Genius Nella Larsen's "Quicksand" is a sleeper masterpiece. She artfully weaves a tale of coming of age & unrequited love. The characters are real, and the conclusion is open to several different interpretations.. "Excellent title!" according to PuroShaggy. "Quicksand" masterfully addresses the racial issues faced by a post-Civil War, post-Reconstructionist America (the complexities and the hypocrisies) while telling the story of a young, intelligent, attractive woman growing up in a society where not only is her ethnicity an issue, but her gender is as well. Helga is a teacher at a "progressive" school in the South, an institut
She is also editor of "Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk Tales from the Gulf States" and "Dark Symphony and Other Works by Elizabeth Laura Adams". . Carla Kaplan is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University. She is the author of "The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters", and "Miss Anne in Harlem: The W
In one sense, Quicksand might be called an odyssey; however, instead of overcoming a series of obstacles and finally arriving at her native land, Larsen's protagonist has a series of adventures, each of which ends in disappointment.. The work is a superb psychological study of a complicated and appealing woman, Helga Crane, who, like Larsen herself, is the product of a liaison between a black man and a white woman. Nella Larsen's first novel tells the story of Helga Crane, a fictional character loosely based on Larsen's own early life. 2011 Reprint of 1928 Edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Crane is the lovely and refined daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father who abandons Helga and her mother soon after Helga is born. Unable to feel comfortable with any of her white-skinned relatives, Helga lives in various places in America and visits Denmark in search of people among whom she feels at home