Rafia Zafar
Auteur de Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s
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Crédit image: Washington University in St. Louis
Séries
Œuvres de Rafia Zafar
Harlem Renaissance Novels: The Library of America Collection (2011) — Directeur de publication — 48 exemplaires
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- Sexe
- male
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 281
- Popularité
- #82,782
- Évaluation
- 5.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 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.… (plus d'informations)