Document Type
Article
Abstract
The major ideological and political agenda of the aesthetic movement that was the Harlem Renaissance, namely the (re)negotiation of African American subjectivity/identity and social place, was worked out by African American Modernist writers, in part, through discourses and dialectics related to maternity. This essay is an examination of the present absence of the maternal in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and the negotiation of the maternal feminine as a principle in both the construction of female subjectivity in the novel and within themodernist/Harlem Renaissance project of cultural revision.
Repository Citation
Manora, Yolanda M.. "The Name of the Mother: Modernity, Maternity, and the (Bi)Racialized Failure of Relational Female Subjectivity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 4, 2008, pp. 1–16. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss4/8