The education at Naxos, implored no new ideas and tolerated no new innovations, in other words individualism was very discouraged. The school was an example of the theory that African Americans needed to improve their lot, the policy of "Black Uplift".
Helga teaches at an elite southern school named Naxos (referenced to a Greek Island in the Aegean Sea). "Nella" Larsen introduces the main character Helga Crane, a young girl of twenty two, with delicate but well turned arms and legs. Nella Larsen was a light skinned biracial women who was born to a Danish mother and a Caribbean father on April 13, 1891, in Chicago and died on March 30, 1964. Themes included in the novel, remain as modern problems of today, middle-class verses lower-class issues and color consciousness. Nella Larsen's work contains an overall view of the world from the Harlem Renaissance era, including a Feminist perspective. Nella Larsen's appearance with her writing of "Quicksand" and "Passing" won her the prestigious Guggenheim fellowship award for creative writing. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Nella Larsen was a very successful African American Fiction writer. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
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. 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.
As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. 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.
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