Tropes of Apologetic Sexuality and the Lineage of African American Women in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand
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This article locates Helga’s apologetic sexuality in Quicksand within the early twentieth-century context of the Great Migration―one of the major demographic transformations in the US race history―including consumerism, and Black Nativism. Helga’s search for her own subjectivity discloses how the homogeneous black patriarchy marginalized female African Americans, appropriating a black female body for political struggle and racial uplift, and her mobility and consumerist fetishism militate against social and cultural oppressions inscribed upon a black female body in the male-centered black community. Such representations of psychological conundrums and sexual cul-de-sac of African American women place Quicksand in the womanist tradition, echoing the social surveillance on a black female body in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, in which sexuality without apology is not allowed. Through the inner psychological turbulence of Helga, whose sexual desire is always deferred, Larsen criticizes a world where female sexuality can be sanctioned only within heterosexual black patriarchy.
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This article locates Helga’s apologetic sexuality in Quicksand within the early twentieth-century context of the Great Migration―one of the major demographic transformations in the US race history―including consumerism, and Black Nativism. Helga’s search for her own subjectivity discloses how the homogeneous black patriarchy marginalized female African Americans, appropriating a black female body for political struggle and racial uplift, and her mobility and consumerist fetishism militate against social and cultural oppressions inscribed upon a black female body in the male-centered black community. Such representations of psychological conundrums and sexual cul-de-sac of African American women place Quicksand in the womanist tradition, echoing the social surveillance on a black female body in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, in which sexuality without apology is not allowed. Through the inner psychological turbulence of Helga, whose sexual desire is always deferred, Larsen criticizes a world where female sexuality can be sanctioned only within heterosexual black patriarchy.
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