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The House Behind the Cedars - (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Charles W Chesnutt (Paperback)
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Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: 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.
- 224 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
- Series Name: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
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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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Review Quotes
"A pioneering work about racial passing."
--Werner Sollors, Harvard University
About the Author
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.Dimensions (Overall): 7.82 Inches (H) x 5.08 Inches (W) x .59 Inches (D)
Weight: .39 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Sub-Genre: Classics
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 224
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: Charles W Chesnutt
Language: English
Street Date: April 1, 1993
TCIN: 93371574
UPC: 9780140186857
Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-6007
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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