Comedy, American Style - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081354632X ISBN 13 : 9780813546322

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destructionùthe story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage. Originally published in 1933, this intense narrative stands the test of time and continues to raise compelling, disturbing, and still contemporary themes of color prejudice and racial self-hatred. Several of today's bestselling novelists echo subject matter first visited in Fauset's commanding work, which overflows with rich, vivid, and complex characters who explore questions of color, passing, and black identity.

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson's introduction places this literary classic in both the new modernist and transatlantic contexts and will be embraced by those interested in earlytwentieth-century women writers, novels about passing, the Harlem Renaissance, the black/white divide, and diaspora studies. Selected essays and poems penned by Fauset are also included, among them "Yarrow Revisited" and "Oriflamme," which help highlight the full canon of her extraordinary contribution to literature and provide contextual background to the novel.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson is an associate professor in the English department at theUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (Rutgers University Press).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081354632X
• ISBN 13: 9780813546322
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Éditeur: Sherrard-Johnson Cherene, Fauset Jessie
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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