TY - JOUR
AU - Rayson, Ann
AB - Foreign Exotic or Domestic Drudge? The African American Woman in Quicksand and Tar Baby Ann Rayson University of Hawai'i, Manoa Bot h Helg a Cran e in Nell a Larsen' s Quicksand (1928) an d Jadine Child s in Toni Morrison' s Tar Baby (1981) are faced wit h racial and sexua l choices . Bot h women , orphans taken in b y a n aunt an d uncle, ar e courte d by whit e Europea n me n and blac k America n me n who represen t respectively, wealth , position, power , an d asexuality versus poverty , anti-intellectualism, an d sexuality. Helg a rejects he r Euro­ pea n suitor, the Danis h painter Axel Olsen , whil e Jadin e finally opts t o retur n to he r life as a fashio n mode l in Paris . Wha t Europe, throug h thes e men , represents for blac k America n wome n is th e oth­ er : control , power , coolness, perhap s th e benevolenc e o f th e white maste r wh o treats the blac k woma n as a n exotic, 
TI - Foreign Exotic or Domestic Drudge? The African American Woman in Quicksand and Tar Baby
JF - MELUS
DO - 10.2307/468013
DA - 1998-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/foreign-exotic-or-domestic-drudge-the-african-american-woman-in-ujP4ccXIU3
SP - 87
EP - 100
VL - 23
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -