The house behind the cedars / Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Judith Jackson Fossett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932.

Series:

Modern Library classics

The Modern Library classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--Fiction.

Multiracial people.

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Passing (Identity)--Fiction.

Passing (Identity).

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Racism--Fiction.

Racism.

Southern States--Fiction.

Southern States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Didactic fiction.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 223 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

2003 Modern Library paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Library, 2003.

Summary:

The House Behind the Cedars, which many consider Charles Chesnutt's fi 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 Chesnutt's works with those by Turgenev, Maupassant, and James . . . and Chesnutt has become one of the most important 'crossover' authors from the African-American tradition."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-223).

ISBN:

0812966163

OCLC:

52559279