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Begging to Differ: Nella Larsen's "Quicksand" and Anzia Yezierska's "Arrogant Beggar"
Ist Teil von
African American review, 2007-03, Vol.41 (1), p.87-98
Ort / Verlag
Saint Louis: Saint Louis University
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Quicksand, while disrupting any sense of the inexorableness of racial stratification and identification, not only highlights that being identified as black in the United States meant to be a mendicant, according to dominant definitions, but also literalizes- through Helga Crane's tragic end- that being a black woman meant, in a profound sense, to be a beggar's consort, doubly removed from full subjecthood.14 The novel ends with its very respectable and middle class protagonist reduced to poverty, reproduction, and domesticity.