Quicksand and Passing
A Fiction, Classics, Cultural book. After reading both of these novels I was so sad to find that...
"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 insighful 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 ForumNella 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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- Pages: 246 pages
- ISBN: 9780813511702 / 813511704
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After reading both of these novels I was so sad to find that after some scandal about plagarism Larsen abandoned her writing. I wish, I wish, I wish she had written more. I was required to read Passing for my Gay/lesbian Lit class, but I ended up reading Quicksand as well, in my spare time. Both stories are well constructed works with beautiful prose and interesting protagonists and characters. Having the two stories back to back also creates an interesting paradox of sorts, as they almost contradict... Passing is a story of deception and hidden things. The title refers most obviously to the narrative of racial passing that moves the plot along. Clare is a black woman passing as white; she has even married a white man under the pretenses of being white. The narrative begins with the reintroduction of Clare and Irene (the protagonist...
