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Quicksand & Passing
Nella Larsen
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Description for Quicksand & Passing
Paperback. Series: Serpent's Tail Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182.
Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and Alexander Skarsgard. A writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen wrote just two novels, published here, and a handful of short stories. Critically acclaimed, both speak powerfully of the contradictions and restrictions experienced by black women at that time. Quicksand, written in 1928, is an autobiographical novel about Helga Crane, a mixed race woman caught between fulfilling her desires and gaining respectability in her middle class neighbourhood. Written a year later, Passing tells the story of two childhood friends, Clare and Irene, both light skinned ... Read more
Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and Alexander Skarsgard. A writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen wrote just two novels, published here, and a handful of short stories. Critically acclaimed, both speak powerfully of the contradictions and restrictions experienced by black women at that time. Quicksand, written in 1928, is an autobiographical novel about Helga Crane, a mixed race woman caught between fulfilling her desires and gaining respectability in her middle class neighbourhood. Written a year later, Passing tells the story of two childhood friends, Clare and Irene, both light skinned ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Serpent's Tail Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846687853
SKU
V9781846687853
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Ref
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About Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen was born in Chicago in 1893 to a Danish mother and a West Indian father. She began writing during the Harlem Renaissance, a period during which black artists, writers, and musicians were prominent in the New York art scene. The success of Quicksand and Passing made Nella Larsen one of the most fêted woman writers of her ... Read more
Reviews for Quicksand & Passing
Quicksand and Passing are novels that 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
Alice Walker Highly charged interior dramas of the black middle class in Harlem [by] an original and hugely insightful writer
New York ... Read more
Alice Walker Highly charged interior dramas of the black middle class in Harlem [by] an original and hugely insightful writer
New York ... Read more