The House Behind the Cedars
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
Fossett, Judith Jackson (EDT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
The House Behind the Cedars, which many consider Charles Chesnutts nest novel, tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life. This edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African-American writers. As Werner Sollors writes, William Dean Howells did not overstate his case when he compared Chesnutts works with those by Turgenev, Maupassant, and James . . . and [Chesnutt] has become one of the most important crossover authors from the African-American tradition.
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A pioneering work about racial passing.
Werner Sollors, Harvard University
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ISBN: 0812966163
ISBN(13-digit): 9780812966169
Dewey Decimal: 813/.4
Library of Congress: 2003059921
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): .425 lb
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