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Helga Crane's Copenhagen: Denmark, Colonialism, and Transnational Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
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IN HIS 1993 BOOK The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Paul Gilroy posits an as yet open and unanswered question: "What of Nella Larsen's relationship to Denmark?" (18). Although she fell into obscurity relatively soon after the publication of her last novel in 1929, today Larsen ranks with Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston as one of the major writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Indeed, Larsen's two novels, Quicksand in 1928 and Passing in 1929, are not only complex expressions of African-American racial and gender identity in the twenties but also important modernist experiments. However, although recent scholarship has explored how black Atlantic culture transcends ...
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