""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 Forum 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 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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