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Title: Quicksand and Passing (American Women Writers Series) by Nella Larsen, Deborah McDowell ISBN: 0-8135-1170-4 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: April, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Passing
Comment: I haven't read Quicksand so I can't review it, but, as one other reviewer noted, it is really a shame Larsen isn't taught more often. Even uprooting the story (I hesitate to call it a novel) from its African-American/Feminist/Harlem Renaissance context, Passing is simply an important piece of American literature. In the span of 100 pages it competently grapples with some hefty themes - repression, oppression, homosexuality, hybridity, the 'technique' of racism (in the sense that it's a mutual act between the discrimator and the discriminated) and domesticity to name a few. 'Discovering' stories like this, you can't help becoming critical of the literary canon. In a course that deals with class issues or cultural studies (I'm thinking of Bordieu's 'distinction' as well) this would be a very complementary choice.
Rating: 5
Summary: Remarkable
Comment: Quicksand was an overlooked treasure during Renaissance. Pay close attention to the detail, the surroundings, and the inner thoughts of the main character.... simply marvelous.
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant
Comment: It may seem fantastical that a Black woman is involved with Scandanavia but that is her heritage. Reading Passing made me wish that I had lived in Harlem in that era so I went back to the library and read as much as I could on Black America in that area at that time. It made me do research on the Dunbar Hotel here in Los Angeles. The scene on the rooftop restaurant was riveting and even I grew uncomfortable with the staring scene. Quicksand was a totally different tragedy and just as compelling. Imagine having that much uncertainty in your life, educated or not. I can see that if the time period had been different and the book was turned into a movie by Tarentino, the main character would have surely turned to hard drugs and some form of retaliation by murder.
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Title: Cane by Jean Toomer ISBN: 0871401517 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ISBN: 0060931418 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Home to Harlem by Claude McKay, Wayne M. Cooper ISBN: 1555530249 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: December, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral by Jessie Redmon Fauset ISBN: 0807009199 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The New Negro by Alain Locke ISBN: 0684838311 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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