Quicksand

Quicksand: A constant search for a satisfactory life The time period that the fiction sets is the 1920s, when the society was experiencing significant transformations in every aspect of life. The Progressive Movement, which aimed at eliminating various means of political corruption and illegal business practices, had just abated. Harlem Renaissance, a new element of the 1920s, took place in City of New York and its effect swept across the country. Harlem Renaissance, a rebirth of African American

2013530960 Ask Dai American Literature Christina Davis February 21, 2016 The Failure of Construction of African American Female’s Subjectivity from Quicksand The awakening of the consciousness of black women’s subjectivity drives them to construct their own subjectivity. However, they are often constrained by the body both physically and mentally. In Quicksand, Helga migrates frequently to find a place to fit in, yet she finds no room for her. Fleeing Naxos because of her “unconformity,” she goes to Harlem

black female sexuality that shifted responsibility for his own sexual passions onto his female slaves” (37). To reclaim their sexuality, they often created black characters who were deliberately chaste or asexual. Such is the case in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand, in which Helga crane is a deliberately unsexual heroine, unable to reconcile her lack of sexuality with society’s expectations of her. In Their Eyes, Janie’s emerging sexual curiosity is initially stifled by Nanny, and then temporarily snuffed out

Nella Larsen’s Quicksand stands as an example of how literature is reflective of a woman’s pursuit of happiness. The character of Helga Crane strives to achieve happiness but is never successful because she is a woman and societal expectations of modest style, marriage, and motherhood prevent women from being truly happy. Helga Crane cannot be happy because of the expectation for modesty by women of color in fashion. Women employed at Naxos were disciplined to not complement their skin tones

Helga Crane throughout Quicksand by Nella Larsen seems to be searching for a sense of who she is. What is she really at her core, what does she stand for, and what does she want? I can be seen that Helga doesn’t know what she wants until she is unable to relive her past and do the things she wanted to do. Furthermore, Helga has symptoms of depression which lead to an overwhelming sense of unhappiness and discontentment. “She went through moments of overwhelming anguish. She felt shut in, trapped”

Quicksand is a condition forms when saturated loose sand is suddenly agitated (loss its stress force). Thus, lose it strength as it cannot support its own weight. In the laboratory, the sand was compressed when a load is applied on it and later the water fill in the gaps between the sand grains and as a result, the sand becomes saturated and called “semiliquid state”. Furthermore, effective stress is calculated by total stress and pore water pressure. where, effective stress; = total stress; and

Quicksand describes the struggle of an African American woman’s live. The woman, Helga Crane throughout the whole book never stops moving from one place to another in order to seek her identity and her niche in a “fit” community in which she can become autonomous in sex and free from racial discrimination. Leaving the Southern United States, for Harlem, and then for Denmark-- where she is seemly welcomed by her white relatives live, Crane never finds the feeling of being at home. She is still

In Nella Larsen’s Quicksand, a biracial woman by the name of Helga Crane faces a number of trials and tribulations that challenge her social and cultural identity. Throughout the novel, Helga is challenged with socially, culturally, and sexually misplaced while living among social elites and the bourgeois, which ironically leads her to a place of isolation. Her dissatisfaction with her life, onset by her sense of displacement, causes her to take flight in many situations she faces. Despite the fact

instructed my spotter to rack the weight; and as the words reached my ear I felt a wave of disappointment towards myself. Two hundred and ten pounds, was that all I could do after a whole summer of strength camp. I felt as though I was sinking in quicksand, all this effort yet only for a loss in my strength. I remembered then of all that I have done to get this far starting at one hundred and thirty-five pounds. After a whole two years, I trained not missing a workout nor a day of strength camp. To

Davis Feb. 12, 2016 The Consciousness of African American Female in Quicksand Citing a few lines by Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen starts to pursue and construct racial and gender identity of African American Female in her prestigious novel Quicksand, concerns much about the mixed-raced female’s perturbation of double consciousness and identity quest. Due to the similar trajectories between the author and the heroine Helga Crane, Quicksand has long been presumed semi-autobiographical, featuring a restless