Nella Larsen

Arenas movedizas está inspirada en la propia vida de la autora. Nella Larsen crea un peculiar personaje, una mujer complicada y llena de matices que se niega a sentirse víctima del desarraigo y la discriminacion racial. Helga Crane, una joven afroamericana, condenada a una vida llena de insatisfaccion, que lucha por conseguir la felicidad e integrarse en la sociedad, sea cual sea esta. Una mujer mestiza, de madre danesa y padre afroamericano, incapaz de sentirse comoda en la comunidad afroamericana de Estados Unidos, decide emprender un viaje a Dinamarca en busca de personas entre las que se sienta integrada. Se enfrenta a la hipocresia y los prejuicios de la sociedad, y su afan por adaptarse a las diversas comunidades raciales nunca tiene exito.

The overlooked American writer who blows apart modern thinking on race TelegraphBorn to a Danish mother and a West Indian father Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself as a mixed race woman in the Deep South of 1920 s America She moves to Harlem and then to Copenhagen in her search for a sense of belonging and acceptance but wherever she goes she cannot escape the perceptions and prejudices of others One of the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance Nella Larsen s semi autobiographical first novel is a powerful portrayal of one woman s fractured inner life

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Claroscuro y Arenas movedizas son dos novelas que nunca olvidaré. Abren todo un mundo de experiencias y de luchas que, cuando las leí por primera vez hace años, me pareció absolutamente cautivador, fascinante e indispensable. Alice Walker Poco antes

Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to reassess their marriages, the lies they have told - and to confront the secret fears they have buried within themselves. Nella Larsen's intense, taut and psychologically nuanced portrayal of lives and identities dangerously colliding established her as a leading writer of America's Harlem Renaissance.The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

Claroscuro, un soberbio drama sobre la identidad y el deseo traducido por primera vez al castellano, narra la relación de amistad entre dos mujeres de color en la Nueva York de los años veinte. Irene Redfield se reencuentra por casualidad con una amiga de la infancia, Clare Kendry, quien comparte con ella el hecho de que, a pesar de ser negra, su piel es lo suficientemente clara para que pueda pasar por blanca. Irene ha permanecido en la comunidad negra y está casada con un médico afroamericano. Claire, sin embargo, se hace pasar por blanca y está casada con un blanco que goza de una desahogada posición económica y desprecia a la gente de color. El casual encuentro hace que, a pesar de la reticencia inicial de Irene, retomen su amistad, amistad que le permitirá a Clare cumplir su deseo de reencontrarse con los de su raza.