Quicksand and Passing
by Nella Larsen | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0813511704 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0813511704 Global Overview for this book
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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 novel's greatest appeal and achievement, however, is not sociological, but psychological. As noted in the editor's comprehensive introduction, Larsen takes the them 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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