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Contents
Foreword by Marita Golden
Introduction by Charles R. Larson
The Wrong Man
Freedom
Sanctuary
Quicksand
Passing
Part One—Encounter
Part Two—Re-encounter
Part Three—Finale
Nella Larsen—A Chronology
Foreword
Nella Larsen’s heroines are emotional nomads, women whose intelligence and genius for rebellion make them ill suited for the proscribed existence ordained by whites for blacks in 1920s and ’30s segregated America. No tragic mulattoes here. These prim, proper colored ladies bristle with discontent and yearning. But, most important, they are driven by the impulse to shape their lives rather than suffer them, even when their grasp is unsure and they are careening full tilt towards disaster.
In Helga Crane and Clare Kendry, Nella Larsen has created two characters that are rich, complex, and contradictory. Quicksand and Passing launch each woman on a quest for self that predicts the themes of much of the most important writing in American literature of the last twenty years. Inevitably, any writer whose female protagonists resist the expected, the traditional, the “correct,” is dialoguing with the literary legacy of Nella Larsen.
I initially discovered Nella Larsen as an undergraduate enrolled in a Black American Literature course taught by Charles Larson at American University. Even now I recall quite vividly the breath-snatching shudder that gripped me as I read the final pages of Quicksand. I can’t remember any ending to a novel which frightened or warned me more effectively. I had not even become at that point the apprentice writer I would evolve into a few years later, but was a young woman reading everything I could find, questioning it and struggling to dredge up my own voice—a voice that, luckily for me, was nurtured and encouraged by parents who taught me that honesty and justice were more important than peace and quiet. I shuddered when I closed the final pages of Quicksand in 1970 because the cloistered world of academia allowed me on some level to intellectualize the bleak portrait of female destiny Larsen so deftly painted. And the powerful hold of the book for me sprang largely from the elegant timbre, the poise and remarkable beauty of Larsen’s style.
In 1990, having weathered the Reagan years, witnessed the feminization of poverty in America, the retrenchment of the nation’s commitment to social equality, having been married, become a mother, divorced, been a single parent, and remarried; having taught university courses disguised, I ho ............

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