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Quicksand

von Nella Larsen

Fiction Literature African American Literature Historical Fiction

ISBN

0141181273

Verlag

Penguin

Erschienen

29.01.2002

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African American literature 1920s racial identity gender roles autobiographical fiction classic literature Harlem Renaissance cultural displacement mixed race identity struggle women's fiction social commentary historical fiction American South Denmark emotional freedom Nella Larsen Penguin Classics literary fiction cultural heritage race relations expatriate experience personal journey self-discovery societal expectations

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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. 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.