Crane visits her maternal aunt in Copenhagen. She is then launched into her third hankering to flee. When in Harlem, Helga Crane becomes the secretary to a refined, but often hypocritical, black middle-class woman who is obsessed with the "race problem". The inimical encounter instigates her move to Harlem. There, her white maternal uncle, now married to a bigoted woman, shuns her.
This incites her first endeavor of escapism where she quits her job and moves to Chicago. Washington-inspired sermon that reinforces racial segregation and warns black students that striving for social equality will lead them to become avaricious. She is repelled by the subjugate demeanor of her superiors with consideration to their attempts to whitewash her black counterparts and she criticizes the Booker T. The theme of mainstream white influence is further developed throughout the novel. While teaching in Naxos, Helga Crane suffers from social angst as she is discontented with the social uplift philosophy delivered by a white preacher. The novel gives us a glimpse into the dichotomy of biracial identity and the divergence into two vastly different worlds as the protagonist travels through uniquely different cultural spaces from the 1920s Jazz Age Harlem to Copenhagen, Denmark. Her early years were spent with her Danish mother and White step-father who loathed her, and there began her torn relationship with her split identity. Helga is the daughter of a Danish mother, who died when she was an adolescent, and a West Indian father, who is absent. The novel begins with Helga teaching at a southern black school in Naxos which is meant to be a fictional mirror of the Tuskegee Institute. Nella Larsen introduces the educated mixed-race protagonist, Helga Crane, who struggles to find her identity in a world of racialized crisis in the 1920s. Larsen called the emotional experiences of the novel "the awful truth" in a letter to her friend Carl van Vechten. McLendon called it the more "obviously autobiographical" of Larsen's two novels. Larsen dedicated the novel to her husband.
Quicksand is a work that explores both cross-cultural and interracial themes. The novel was out of print from the 1930s to the 1970s. This is her first novel and she completed the first draft quickly.
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