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Begging to Differ: Nella Larsen's "Quicksand" and Anzia Yezierska's
Ist Teil von
African American review, 2007-01, p.87-98
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
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Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
"Published just a year apart, [Nella Larsen's] Quicksand and [Anzia Yezierska's] Arrogant Beggar are both narratives about young women who are searching for self-realization. These novels can thus be seen as part of a relatively new literary genre: women novelists' writings about female self-determination, developed during the Progressive Era and reflecting the dramatic social changes that transpired in relation to gender roles in the early 20th-century United States (Ammons passim). And yet, while these two texts share similar cultural concerns and narrative themes, the fates of Helga Crane and Adele Lindner are ultimately very different. What, then, might account for the dramatically dissimilar trajectories of Helga Crane and Adele Lindner?" (African American Review) In this essay, Catherine Rottenberg "investigate[s] the trope of the beggar, which surfaces at various and crucial moments in [Larsen's Quicksand and Yezierska's Arrogant Beggar ], to argue that although...both [novels] invoke images of begging and beggary, there is a profound difference in the ways that Larsen and Yezierska depict their protagonists' relationship to this trope."