![]() ![]() (Faint spots to edges, a couple of margins lightly marked.) Original orange cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt printed dust jacket (minor soiling, a few chips and tears to folds and upper panel). Larsen’s second novel, Passing (1929), has been adapted into a film (2021). In 1923, Larsen became the first professionally-trained Black librarian and then in 1930 became the first Black woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. ![]() Her first novel, Quicksand (1928), is a largely autobiographical work concerning the struggle of Helga Crane, the mixed-race protagonist, to gain a sense of belonging in a highly racialized society. Born to a Danish mother and a West Indian father, Nella Larsen is widely regarded as ‘the premier novelist of the Harlem Renaissance and a pioneer analyst of biracial identity’ (Shaffer). A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high. Limited by social expectations of marriage and respectability, acceptable expressions of sexuality were few, especially for biracial women like Helga. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of Quicksand by Nella Larsen. Knopf, 1928.įirst edition of the author ’ s first novel, preserving the very scarce dust jacket. Larsen decided to use Quicksand to counter such notions with a realistic portrayal of the conflicts and pressures facing black women, particularly with regard to their sexual expression. ![]()
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