There Is Confusion Paperback - 2020

Name: There Is Confusion
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Author: Fauset, Jessie Redmon
ISBN: 9780486843506

by Jessie Redmon Fauset

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About this book

There Is Confusion, written by Jessie Redmon Fauset, is considered the first work of fiction to portray the educated black middle class as legitimate and productive. Using the traditional conventions of the 'novel of manners,' Fauset's work advanced themes of racial uplift, patriotism, optimism for the future, and Black solidarity. The story of three black children chasing their dreams and love while struggling for success and equality.

Jessie Redmon Fauset, one of the first female African-American graduates of Cornell, was a very influential critic and the most prolific novelist of the Harlem Renaissance. She was the literary editor of The Crisis, a far-reaching and influential magazine put out by the NAACP.

From the publisher

"An important book." -- The New York Times Set in Philadelphia and New York a century ago, this novel by a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance traces the hopes and dreams of three young African-Americans as they search for love, financial security, and success: Joanna, prepared to sacrifice romance on the altar of ambition; Maggie, eager to escape her blue-collar background by marrying well; and Peter, an aspiring doctor motivated by his love for Joanna. Published to critical acclaim in 1924, the story offers a moving examination of the struggles against prejudice and discrimination by members of the black middle class during a tumultuous era.
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) was the author of four novels as well as many stories, poems, and reviews. From 1919 to 1926 she was the literary editor of the NAACP's magazine, The Crisis, in which she published and promoted the work of such major writers as Jean Toomer, George Schuyler, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay. This new edition of There Is Confusion revives her unjustly overlooked voice.

First Edition Identification

There is Confusion was first published by Bon and Liveright, New York in 1924.

Details

Title There Is Confusion
Author Jessie Redmon Fauset
Binding Paperback
Pages 288
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Dover Publications
Date 2020-05-21
ISBN 9780486843506 / 0486843505
Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 1.27 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, African American women - Pennsylvania -
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019041808
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) was the author of four novels as well as many stories, poems, and reviews. From 1919 to 1926 she was the literary editor of Crisis magazine, in which she published and promoted the work of major voices of the Harlem Renaissance, including Jean Toomer, George Schuyler, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay. Dover also publishes her children's book, The Chinaberry Tree.