Today it is quite common, but still disturbing, especially during adolescence, which I can confirm myself, having lived through a childhood of regular relocations, and now repeating the pattern with my own children. Had Helga been my contemporary, I would have told her about the ever growing literature on the strange identity of third culture or cross culture kids, growing up between different communities, partly at home in both, but never fully belonging. Somehow, Helga Crane’s odyssey through life - from excitement to disappointment, to rebellion, break-out, and new excitement, leading to repeated disappointment - mirrors and reflects the difficulties all people face who do not completely fit into their environment. But there is so much more, touching on the universal and timeless questions of identity and meaning of life. And it would be both right and enough to make it a worthwhile reading experience. You could argue that it is a story about the peculiar hardships of young African American women of the 1920s. Somehow, Helga Crane’s odyssey through life - from excitement to disappointment, to rebellion, break-out, and new excitement, leading to repeated disappointment Oh, this short novel got under my skin! Oh, this short novel got under my skin! You could argue that it is a story about the peculiar hardships of young African American women of the 1920s. It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life.more Quicksand, Nella Larsen's powerful first novel, has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture of the 1920s. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different.
Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she sta Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself.
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself.
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