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Quicksand and Passing (American Women Writers Series)
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Quicksand and Passing (American Women Writers Series) (1928) (edit title/settings)

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"Quicksand" (1928) is the first novel to give a voice to the sexual desires of a black woman. Helga Crane, the book's protagonist, is trapped in the conflict between an active and a passive sexual behaviour, between sexual fufilment and middle-class respectability. Conflicts of race and sex... read more

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Helga Crane sat alone in her room, which at that hour, eight in the evening, was in soft gloom.

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  1. Nella Larsen (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1928
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Page Count: 245

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