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Quicksand & Passing

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher: Serpent's Tail
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1847655564
Rating: 4.5/5 (64 downloads)

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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 enough to pass as white. Reconnecting in adulthood, Clare has chosen to live as a white woman, while Irene embraces black culture and has an important role in her community. Nella Larsen's novels are moving, characterful, and important books. She pioneered writing about the conflicts of sexuality, race and the secret suffering of women in the early twentieth century.

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Quicksand

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2002-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101157208
Rating: 4.7/5 (8 downloads)

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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.

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Quicksand and Passing

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 1986-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1978832699
Rating: 4.2/5 (99 downloads)

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"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 Angelou "A 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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The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher: Anchor
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307757161
Rating: 4.7/5 (61 downloads)

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This volume brings together the complete fiction of the author of Passing and Quicksand, one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nella Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belonged. 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 bigot. Just as disquieting is the portrait in Quicksand of Helga Crane, half black and half white, who is unable to escape her loneliness no matter where and with whom she lives. Race and marriage offer few securities here or in the other stories in this compulsively readable collection, rich in psychological complexity and imbued with a sense of place that brings Harlem vibrantly to life.

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Quicksand and Passing

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781784877590
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placeholder copy - not for approval VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES 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 enough to pass as white. Reconnecting in adulthood, Clare has chosen to live as a white woman, while Irene embraces black culture and has an important role in her community

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Quicksand & Passing

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher: Random House
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2022-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473597617
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VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconformity' Nella Larsen wrote two novels in her lifetime, both of which are collected here. The first, Quicksand, follows a mixed-race woman who runs from the fictional town of Naxos to Chicago to Harlem to Copenhagen. It becomes easy for her to leave behind places but the discrimination she's running from is inescapable. In Passing, two childhood friends reconnect later in life. 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. Masterfully plotted and infinitely illuminating, Quicksand and Passing are two of the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance. 'A beloved novel from the Harlem Renaissance that follows the fraught relationship between two childhood friends, one who passes for white and one who chooses not to' Brit Bennett 'Absolutely absorbing, fascinating and indispensable' Alice Walker 'Buy the book' W. E. B. Du Bois

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Quicksand and Passing

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781604599923
Rating: 4.4/5 (999 downloads)

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Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, Passing and Quicksand. Quicksand, was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman's need for sexual fulfilment balanced against respectability and acceptance amid a deeply religious society. The novel is deeply pessimistic and ends as the protagonist is sucked into a life that is at odds with all that she had desired. Passing confronts the reality of racial passing. The novel focuses on two childhood friends Clare and Irene, both of whom are light skinned enough to pass as white, who have reconnected with one another after many years apart. Clare has chosen to pass while Irene has embraced her racial heritage and become an important member of her community. The Novel examines how people pass on many different levels and in many different ways. Some forms of passing are perfectly acceptable while others can lead to disaster.

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Collected works by Nella Larsen. Illustrated

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
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Release: 2021-11-17
Genre: Fiction
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Nellallitea 'Nella' Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels and a few short stories. A revival of interest in her writing has occurred since the late 20th century, when issues of racial and sexual identity have been studied. Her works have been the subjects of numerous academic studies, and she is now widely lauded as "not only the premier novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, but also an important figure in American modernism." Since the late 20th century, Passing has received renewed attention from scholars because of its close examination of racial and sexual ambiguities and liminal spaces. It has achieved canonical status in many American universities. Passing Quicksand The Wrong Man Freedom Sanctuary

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Quicksand & Passing

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Release: 1995
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The Nella Larsen Collection; Quicksand, Passing, Freedom, the Wrong Man, Sanctuary

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781935785750
Rating: 4.5/5 (857 downloads)

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The Nella Larsen Collection is comprised of five Nella Larsen fiction including; Quicksand, Passing, Freedom, The Wrong Man, and Sanctuary. Quicksand, Larsen's first novel, tells the story of Helga Crane who is the lovely and refined daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father who abandons Helga and her mother soon after Helga is born. Unable to feel comfortable with any of her white-skinned relatives, Helga travels America, visits Denmark searching for people she feels at home with. In Passing Clare and Irene are childhood friends who lose touch when Clare's father dies and she moves in with two white aunts. By hiding that Clare was part-black, they allowed her to 'pass' as a white woman and marry a white racist. Irene lives in Harlem, commits herself to racial uplift, and marries a black doctor. Passing centers on the meeting of these childhood friends later in life, and the unfolding of events as each woman is fascinated and seduced by the other's daring lifestyle. Freedom, The Wrong Man, and Sanctuary are three stories about love, loss, mistaken identity, and death. Nellallitea 'Nella' Larsen was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance. Though her literary output was scant, what she wrote earned her recognition by her contemporaries and by present-day critics.

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Quicksand

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780393932423
Rating: 4.3/5 (324 downloads)

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"Noted Harlem Renaissance scholar Carla Kaplan here offers a new edition of Nella Larsen's Quicksand with an acute introduction comprising both biography and critical survey. With its careful scholarly scaffolding, this superbly useful edition will benefit teacher and student alike." --RAFIA ZAFAR, Washington University in Saint Louis

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Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen

Author: Jacquelyn Y. McLendon
Publsiher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1603292217
Rating: 4.2/5 (17 downloads)

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Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand and Passing, published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, fell out of print and were thus little known for many years. Now widely available and taught, Quicksand and Passing challenge conventional "tragic mulatta" and "passing" narratives. In part 1, "Materials," of Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen, the editor surveys the canon of Larsen's writing, evaluates editions of her works, recommends secondary readings, and compiles a list of useful multimedia resources for teaching. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," aim to help students better understand attitudes toward women and race during the Harlem Renaissance, the novels' relations to other artistic movements, and legal debates over racial identities in the early twentieth century. In so doing, contributors demonstrate how new and seasoned instructors alike might use Larsen's novels to explore a wide range of topics--including Larsen's short stories and letters, the relation between her writings and her biography, and the novels' discussion of gender and sexuality.

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American Women Writers, 1900-1945

Author: Laurie Champion
Publsiher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2000
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9780313309434
Rating: 4.3/5 (94 downloads)

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Profiles nearly sixty American women writers whose most significant works were written or published between 1900 and 1945, describing their lives, major works and themes, and critical reception, and providing primary and secondary bibliographies.

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Quicksand by Nella Larsen

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2011-04-30
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ISBN: 9781617203657
Rating: 4.7/5 (36 downloads)

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Passing & Quicksand

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher: Grapevine India Publishers Pvt Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789356300521
Rating: 4.6/5 (5 downloads)

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A light-skinned African-American woman Clare, an old childhood friend of Irene Redfield's, is now ""passing"" as a White woman. Clare is married to a bigoted White man who is unaware that she is of African descent. Despite the risk of being discovered by her husband and society at large, she is compelled to enter Irene's world. ... On multiple levels, Passing is a fascinating listening experience. Helga Crane aspires to be more than she is, to experience the world more deeply. As a result, she ignores her hometown of Chicago, New York's Harlem, and even Copenhagen. She also misses out on chances to be a part of a larger family, to marry, and to find true love. What is always lurking in this absolutely excellent work is how much Helga's malaise is defined by the background of 1920s American racial segregation, and how much is - paradoxically - of her own doing... Living in a society with so many unsolved issues, injustice, hypocrisy, and violence may very easily feel like wading in quicksand.

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Passing, Quicksand, and Other Stories

Author: Nella Larsen
Publsiher: Digireads.com
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781420951059
Rating: 4.0/5 (51 downloads)

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Published in 1928, Nella Larsen's first novel "Quicksand" regards the story of Helga Crane, the lovely and refined mixed-race daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father. The character is loosely based on Larsen's own experiences and deals with the character's struggle for racial and sexual identity, a theme common to Larsen's work. In Larsen's second novel, "Passing," published in 1929, the author revisits this struggle through the lives of two childhood friends, Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield, both of whom are of mixed African and European ancestry and are "passing" as whites. The novel picks up in the lives of the two as they later reunite in adulthood. An ambiguous relation develops between the two as they share a fascination for how each other's lives have transpired since they last knew each other. Larsen's work has been lauded for its exploration of race, gender, class, and sexuality amongst African Americans in early part of the 20th century. Now considered as a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Larsen's writing gives a firsthand insight into the struggle of African Americans during this era. Along with her two novels three of Larsen's short stories, "The Wrong Man," "Freedom," and "Sanctuary" are presented together here in this volume.