Quicksand: AND Passing Includes two novels "Quicksand" and "Passing". In "Quicksand", Helga Crane is trapped in the conflict between an active and a passive sexual behaviour, between sexual fufilment and middle-class respectability. Conflicts of race and sex even a religious conversion cannot resolve. Full description
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