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The exemplar of “irritation” in Sianne Ngai’s Ugly Feelings is this novel’s protagonist, who tells herself that she isn’t a “jungle creature” while feeling “drugged” by the music at a nightclub. While staying at the YWCA in Chicago, the protagonist of this novel struggles to find work due to lacking “references” but is eventually hired to accompany the lecturer Mrs. Hayes-Rore to New York. This novel’s protagonist is panged by homesickness while listening to Dvořák’s New World Symphony and angrily watches a (*) minstrel show with the painter Axel Olsen, (10[1])whose proposal she rejects while staying with her aunt in Copenhagen. (10[1]-5[1])This (-5[1])novel opens (-5[1])at Naxos, (10[1])a drab school based on the Tuskegee Institute, and ends with the protagonist’s (10[1])suffocating marriage to (10[1])Reverend Pleasant Green (10[1])in the Deep South. For 10 points, Helga Crane fails to find happiness in Harlem in what novel that launched Nella Larsen’s (10[1])career? (10[1]-5[1])■END■ (10[2]0[5])

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