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  • Plum Bun
    Jessie Redmon Fauset
    Angela e Virginia Murray sono sorelle, cresciute in una famiglia afroamericana a Filadelfia. Diversamente da Virginia, Angela ha ereditato la pelle chiara della madre Mattie, il che le dà l’opportunità di 'passare' per bianca in contesti pubblici. Poco dopo che le sorelle Murray raggiungono l’età adulta, entrambi i genitori muoiono, lasciando la loro casa alle figlie. Sperando ...
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    24,14 €

  • Plum Bun
    Jessie Redmon Fauset
    Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral is a bold, trailblazing novel that confronts the illusions of race, gender, and identity in 1920s America. Written by Harlem Renaissance luminary Jessie Redmon Fauset, this compelling story follows Angela Murray, a light-skinned African American woman who dares to pass as white in pursuit of freedom and opportunity.Driven by ambition and the pr...
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    18,57 €

  • Plum Bun
    Jessie Redmon Fauset
    For Angela Murray, the eldest of the Murray sisters, the only thing standing between a happy life and successful career is her color. Masked behind fairer skin and more European features, her racial identity can be forsaken so long as she leaves Philadelphia-and her sister-behind. Fleeing to New York, Angela enters a new white world learning that prejudice isn’t limited to colo...
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    13,43 €

  • There Is Confusion
    Jessie Redmon Fauset
    Jane Austen meets the Harlem Renaissance in this novel of three young, ambitious Black Americans striving for love and success in the big city. Set in 1920s New York City, There Is Confusion tells the story of three friends who grew up supporting one another’s dreams. But now that they are young adults, things are not so simple . . . First, there is Maggie Ellersley, who is eag...
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    20,78 €

  • The Chinaberry Tree
    Jessie Redmon Fauset'
    Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her 'bad blood,' inherited from a common-law interracial union. Proud and independent, she longs for the respectability of a conventional marriage. Laurentine’s vivaciou...
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    21,60 €

  • Comedy
    Jessie Redmon Fauset
    This ironically titled tale by an influential figure in African-American literature explores the tragic effects of color prejudice and self-hatred. Jessie Redmon Fauset’s 1933 novel paints a haunting portrait of internalized racism with its depiction of a domineering mother whose determination for her children to pass as white leads to devastating results for the entire family....
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    24,08 €

  • There is Confusion
    Jessie Redmon Fauset
    There Is Confusion (1924) is a novel by Jessie Redmon Fauset. Published to resounding acclaim from such critics as Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory, There Is Confusion was largely forgotten by the 1930s as the Great Depression and the Second World War shifted national attention away from the writers and artists whose vision defined the Harlem Renaissance. Rediscovered by scho...
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    10,04 €

  • There Is Confusion
    Jessie Redmon Fauset
    2020 Reprint of the 1924 Edition.  There Is Confusion centers on two families, the New York Marshalls and the Philadelphia Byes. In delineating their histories, Fauset stresses the significance of kinship and origins. She also shows the interconnectedness of the black and white races within these families in order to challenge the prevailing notion that black is evil and white ...
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    17,25 €