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Article: Nella Larsen and the Intertextual Geography of Quicksand.(Critical Essay)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2001
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Toward the middle of her 1928 novel Quicksand, Nella Larsen thematizes her authorial relation to the literary past in a scene that uncannily adumbrates the future demise of her career. Larsen's protagonist, Helga Crane, pores over the writing of her new employer, Mrs. Hayes-Rore, a prominent lecturer on "the race problem" who has hired Helga to edit her speeches. But the lectures, as Helga interprets them, "proved to be merely patchworks of others' speeches and opinions." As she puts her own hand to Mrs. Hayes-Rore's writing, in fact, Helga mentally accuses her employer of that most serious of authorial crimes:
Helga had heard other lecturers say the same things ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Van Wyck Brooks
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
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...Van Wyck Brooks , 1886-1963, American critic, b. Plainfield, N.J., grad ... Notebook (1958), and An Autobiography (1965). Bibliography: See The Van Wyck Brooks-Lewis Mumford Letters, ed. by R. E. Spiller (1970).
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