| Quicksand Contributor(s): Larsen, Nella (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486451402 ISBN-13: 9780486451404 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: Brave, bold, and brilliant, this ground-breaking first novel is the work of one of the Harlem Renaissance's most influential and enduring writers. Larsen's autobiographical portrait of a biracial woman's quest for self-identity and acceptance offers a cautionary tale of an individual lost between two cultures. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | African American - Women - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.5" W x 8.52" (0.35 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Helga's mother is white, and her father is black -- and absent. Ostracized throughout her lonely childhood for her dark skin, Helga spends her adult life seeking acceptance. Everywhere she goes -- the American South, Harlem, even Denmark--she feels oppressed. Socially, economically, and psychologically, Helga struggles against the quicksand of classism, racism, and sexism. One of the most acclaimed and influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen published her powerful first novel in 1928. Quicksand features intriguing autobiographical parallels with Larsen's own life, in addition to reflecting many aspects of African-American culture of the 1920s. Alice Walker praised it and Passing (Larsen's second novel, also available in a Dover edition) as novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable. |