Masterfully plotted and infinitely illuminating, Quicksand and Passing are two of the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance. One, slightly more light-skinned than the other, lives her life passing for a white person, married to a flagrant racist while her friend observes uneasily. In Passing, two childhood friends reconnect later in life. It becomes easy for her to leave behind places but the discrimination she's running from is inescapable. The first, Quicksand, follows a mixed-race woman who runs from the fictional town of Naxos to Chicago to Harlem to Copenhagen. Nella Larsen wrote two novels in her lifetime, both of which are collected here. 'She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconformity' Just as disquieting is the portrait in Quicksand of biracial Helga Crane, who is unable to escape her loneliness no matter where and with whom she lives. Nella Larsen herself was a mulatto, like the protagonist of. Passing, Larsen’s best-known work, is a disturbing story about the unraveling lives of two childhood friends, one of whom turns her back on her past and marries a white racist. VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIESĬelebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. To do so, the main character of Nella Larsens novel Quicksand, Helga Crane, will be analyzed. A beautifully designed series that pays homage to the essential books of the most important and revolutionary Black arts movements in modern history.
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