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Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J
Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset’s fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family’s destruction—the story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage. Originally published in 1933, this intense narrative...
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Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset’s fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family’s destruction—the story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage. Originally published in 1933, this intense narrative stands the test of time and continues to raise compelling, disturbing, and still contemporary themes of color prejudice and racial self-hatred. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson’s introduction places this classic in both the new modernist and transatlantic contexts and will be embraced by those interested in early twentieth-century women writers, nove
Originally published: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1933
Includes bibliographical references
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; A Note on the Text; Comedy: American Style; Selected Essays; Yarrow Revisited; Nostalgia; This Way to the Flea Market; Selected Poems; Oriflamme; Touché; Rencontre; La Vie C'est La Vie; Explanatory Notes