The House Behind the Cedars (Penguin Classics)

Chesnutt, Charles W.

ISBN 10: 0140186859 / ISBN 13: 9780140186857

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1993

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The House Behind the Cedars (Penguin Classics)
• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0140186859
• ISBN-13: 9780140186857
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: good

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Inhaltsangabe

An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt’s story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Judith Jackson Fossett, associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, is the author of Illuminated Darkness: Slavery and Its Shadows in Nineteenth-Century America and the editor of Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century.