Rafia Zafar
Autor de Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Washington University in St. Louis
Series
Obras de Rafia Zafar
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 281
- Popularidad
- #82,782
- Valoración
- 5.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 9
The heroine of Quicksand is first presented to us as a woman of rapid and contradictory mood-swings who seems torn between embracing her Black American identity and rejecting the confines it imposes. Her bi-racial heritage is treated as an objective explanation for her bi-polar personality. In Europe she is an exotic curiosity, cut off from Black culture; in America she finds that culture a prison. The ending shifts from Harlem to Alabama, and there is a brief hope that she will find meaning and purpose in a more traditional Black milieu, but this is yet another delusion. Critics frequently mention the autobiographical nature of this novel, which is a depressing thought.… (más)