Nella Larsen "Quicksand": Difference between revisions

<p style="text-align:left;">Nella Larsen was an Arican American Fiction writer of much acclaim. Nella Larsen's appearance with her writing of "Quicksand" and "Passing" won her the prestigious Guggenheim fellowship award for creative writing. Nella Larsen's work contains an overall view of a blackthe world from the Harlem Harlem Renaissance era, including a FemininstFemininist perspective, focusing on the use of symbols, race and class distinction. Themes included in the novel, remain as modern problems of today, middle-class verses lower-class issues and color consciousness. 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.