“Too high a price”: The “Terrible Honesty” of Black Women's Work in Quicksand

Abstract "Price is too high: Black female 's terrible honesty in running sand presents a new historical lens to understand the novel through its historical background, while Larsen's It reveals new knowledge about history and culture through writing. . The author thinks that Nella Larsen and her novel "The Quicksand" are symbols of And Douglas's view on the complex Harlem Renaissance / White Modernist literary movement of the 1920s, learned in 1995 "Terrorist Honesty" ing. As expressed in Montreal in the 1920s. Therefore, Larsen's extraordinary novel, her own identity, and even her heroine are excellent examples of increasingly complicated contemporary interpretation of the creation of black-and-white literature in the modern American era. The coincidence adventure of Quicksand's heroine, Helga Crane reveals problematic interaction between desire and agent; desires but fails to perform the necessary functions to achieve its goal . This challenge, and the inevitable homeless' s implicit perception, the apparent impossibility of coexisting individual and community identity, and the viability of maintaining desire, are both Larsen and modernist literary projects and new black The interface is the center of the movement. In addition, while the performance of the duties available to Larsen's black women reflects the actual impact of sudden social change during this period, it will prevent and discourage labor contradiction from requiring people's desires It is clarifying that it contradicts in particular. More specifically, Douglas' modernistic "terrible honesty" worldview framework, as Larsen said, is a useful lens to interpret the purpose and meaning of the role of Fulga labor Serve as. Therefore, from their respective labor role and their social background, Larsen can criticize the various elements of the racist discrimination society of America and Europe and sexist discrimination society. This aspect of the analysis of this thesis is enriched by the quest for Larsen's participation in the creation of new black women and black women. The article eventually adopted the "terrible sincerity" lens to promote Helga Crane's reading, as a symbolic point of literary moment of fate Larsen's Jazz era.

As a color woman, some feminists do not pay much attention to color-specific women's issues - racial discrimination and influence after colonialism, the status of the third world women, and the presence of sharp black women Some people seem to be like. Forced (angry black women, babysitters, fuduo etc). Caucasian feminists believe that unnatural divisions will occur, believing in colored women's specific problems, hampering unity and sister relations. At other times, the white feminist just dismissed these problems. In 2008, a famous blogger, Amanda Marcotte, was blamed for writing her article "Who can be illegal" for the blog "Brownfemipower"? article

Abstract "Price is too high: Black female 's terrible honesty in running sand presents a new historical lens to understand the novel through its historical background, while Larsen's It reveals new knowledge about history and culture through writing. . The author thinks that Nella Larsen and her novel "The Quicksand" are symbols of And Douglas's view on the complex Harlem Renaissance / White Modernist literary movement of the 1920s, learned in 1995 "Terrorist Honesty" ing. As expressed in Montreal in the 1920s. Therefore, Larsen's extraordinary novel, her own identity, and even her heroine are excellent examples of increasingly complicated contemporary interpretation of the creation of black-and-white literature in the modern American era. The coincidence adventure of Quicksand's heroine Helga Crane reveals problematic interaction between desire and agent; desires but fails to perform the necessary functions to achieve its goal