Quicksand - Couverture souple

Larsen, Nella

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141181273 ISBN 13 : 9780141181271

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nella Larsen was a black American novelist and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her two novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), were brief, but to this day are at the heart of up-to-the-minute debates over racial and sexual identity. From these two books alone, she is regarded as one of the most important black female novelists in American history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141181273
• ISBN 13: 9780141181271
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Éditeur: Davis Thadious M.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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