Jungle Creatures and Dancing Apes: Modern Primitivism and Nella Larsen's "Quicksand"

Jungle Creatures and Dancing Apes: Modern Primitivism and Nella Larsen's "Quicksand"

This essay examines the repercussions of modernist primitivism on black subjectivity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand. The essay forges intertextual connections between Larsen's novel and contemporary cultural forms in order to untangle the cultural web of primitive fetishization that ensnares...

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Veröffentlicht in:Mosaic (Winnipeg) 2005-06, Vol.38 (2), p.19-35
1. Verfasser: DEFALCO, AMELIA
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
African American culture
African Americans
Black people
Blackness studies
Cultural identity
Desire
Females
Intertextuality
Larsen, Nella
Literary criticism
Modernist art
Novels
Otherness
Pathology
Pointing
Primitivism
Quicksand
Racism
Rhetorical figures
Self concept
Sexuality
Stereotypes
Subjectivity
Voodoo
Women
Writers
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Zusammenfassung:This essay examines the repercussions of modernist primitivism on black subjectivity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand. The essay forges intertextual connections between Larsen's novel and contemporary cultural forms in order to untangle the cultural web of primitive fetishization that ensnares the protagonist.
ISSN:0027-1276
1925-5683