{"id":25539,"date":"2012-09-23T01:16:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T01:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25539"},"modified":"2016-11-13T23:57:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T23:57:15","slug":"quicksand-and-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25539","title":{"rendered":"Quicksand and Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quicksand and Passing<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rutgers University Press<\/a>
\n1986
\n246 pages
\nPaper ISBN: 0-8135-1170-4<\/p>\n

Nella Larsen<\/a><\/strong> (1891-1964)<\/p>\n

Edited by<\/p>\n

Deborah E. McDowell<\/a><\/strong>, Alice Griffin Professor of English
\nUniversity of Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nella Larsen’s novels Quicksand<\/em> (1928) and Passing<\/em> (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem<\/a> in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of the black bourgeoisie<\/a>. 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<\/a>, so popular in Harlem Renaissance<\/a> fiction, to a higher and more complex level, displaying a sophisticated understanding and penetrating analysis of black female psychology.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n