Oreo / Fran Ross ; with a new introduction by Harryette Mullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Fran, 1935-1985.

Series:

Northeastern library of Black literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--Fiction.

Multiracial people.

African American girls--Fiction.

African American girls.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Race relations--Fiction.

Race relations.

Jewish girls--Fiction.

Jewish girls.

Birthfathers--Fiction.

Birthfathers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 212 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2000.

Summary:

This uproariously funny satire about relations between African Americans and Jews is as fresh and outrageous today as when it was first published in 1974.

Born to a Jewish father and black mother who divorce before she is two, Oreo grows up in Philadelphia with her maternal grandparents while her mother tours with a theatrical troupe. Soon after puberty, Oreo heads for New York with a pack on her back to search for her father; but in the big city she discovers that there are dozens of Sam Schwartzes in the phone book, and Oreo's mission turns into a wickedly humorous picaresque quest. The ambitious and playful narrative challenges accepted notions of race, ethnicity, culture, and even the novelistic form itself.

Contents:

Mishpocheh

The Cube and the Pip

Helenic Letters

Pets, Playmates, Pedagogues

Tokens Deposited

Ta-ta Troezen

Periphetes

Sinis

Phaea

Sciron

Cercyon

Procrustes, Cephissus, Apollo Delphinius

Medea, Aegeus

Minos, Pasiphae, Ariadne

Pandion

A Key for Speed Readers, Nonclassicists, Etc..

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page xxviii).

ISBN:

1555534643

OCLC:

44461973