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Comedy: American Style: Jessie Redmon Fauset Paperback - 2009

by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (Editor); Jessie Fauset (Editor)


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Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destructionthe 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.

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A volume in the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA) series, edited by Amritjit Singh, Carla L. Peterson, and C. Lok Chua

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"Comedy: American Style, " Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destruction--the 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.

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  • Title Comedy: American Style: Jessie Redmon Fauset
  • Author Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (Editor); Jessie Fauset (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 316
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press
  • Date 2009-10-01
  • ISBN 9780813546322 / 081354632X
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, African American women
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009006027
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

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).
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