![]() ![]() ![]() Helga after a reverse psychological debate with the new principal at the school, a Dr. It was now a show place in the black belt, exemplification of the Whiteman's magnanimity, refutation of the black man's inefficiency. Helga becomes disenchanted with the hypocrisy at the prestigious school and begins re-evaluating her career choice as a teacher. The education at Naxos, implored no new ideas and tolerated no new innovations, in other words individualism was very discouraged. The school was an example of the theory that African Americans needed to improve their lot, the policy of "Black Uplift". Helga teaches at an elite southern school named Naxos (referenced to a Greek Island in the Aegean Sea). "Nella" Larsen introduces the main character Helga Crane, a young girl of twenty two, with delicate but well turned arms and legs. ![]() Nella Larsen was a light skinned biracial women who was born to a Danish mother and a Caribbean father on April 13, 1891, in Chicago and died on March 30, 1964. Themes included in the novel, remain as modern problems of today, middle-class verses lower-class issues and color consciousness. Nella Larsen's work contains an overall view of the world from the Harlem Renaissance era, including a Feminist perspective. Nella Larsen's appearance with her writing of "Quicksand" and "Passing" won her the prestigious Guggenheim fellowship award for creative writing. Nella Larsen was a very successful African American Fiction writer. ![]()
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