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- Comedy: American Style: American Style
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas
summary
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. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson's introduction places this classic in both the new modernist and transatlantic contexts and will be embraced by those interested in early twentieth-century women writers, novels about passing, the Harlem Renaissance, the black/white divide, and diaspora studies.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Chronology
- pp. xi-xiii
- Introduction
- pp. xv-xl
- A Note on the Text
- p. xli
- Comedy: American Style
- pp. 1-235
- Selected Essays
- Yarrow Revisited
- pp. 239-243
- This Way to the Flea Market
- pp. 252-256
- Selected Poems
- La Vie C’est La Vie
- p. 262
- Explanatory Notes
- pp. 263-270
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813548326
Related ISBN(s)
9780813546315
MARC Record
OCLC
593315765
Pages
316
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No