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Quicksand and Passing
Paperback
Series: American Women Writers
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780813511702
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Apr 1 1986
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.81 Depth: 8.86
Language: English
Quicksand and Passing are 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. --Alice Walker
Discovering Nella Larsen is like finding lost money with no name on it. One can enjoy it with delight and share it without guilt. --Maya AngelouA hugely influential and insightful writer. --The New York Times
Larsen's heroines are complex, restless, figures, whose hungers and frustrations will haunt every sensitive reader. Quicksand and Passing are slender novels with huge themes. --Sarah Waters
A tantalizing mix of moral fable and sensuous colorful narrative, exploring female sexuality and racial solidarity. --Women's Studies International Forum
Rutgers' all-time bestselling book, Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of the black bourgeoisie. The novels' greatest appeal and achievement, however, is not sociological, but psychological. As noted in the editor's comprehensive introduction, Larsen takes the theme of psychic dualism, so popular in Harlem Renaissance fiction, to a higher and more complex level, displaying a sophisticated understanding and penetrating analysis of black female psychology.
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