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The House Behind the Cedars

The House Behind the Cedars - Paperback

by Charles W. Chesnutt
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Availability:In StockContributor:Charles W. ChesnuttSeries:Brown Thrasher BooksPublish date:2000-04-20Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820321943ISBN-10:082032194XUPC:9780820321943Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SC8R6B9NE9

In The House Behind the Cedars, a novel about two African Americans who pass for white in post-Civil War North Carolina, Charles W. Chesnutt introduces a striking new hero in American fiction of the color line: John Walden, a young black man who decides to pass for white in order to earn what he feels is his rightful share of the American dream.

Without sentimentality, Chesnutt's novel probes deeper than any before it into the white South's obsessions with race and privilege and still stands as one of the most authoritative and important explorations of miscegenation in all of American literature.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820321943ISBN-10:082032194XUPC:9780820321943Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SC8R6B9NE9
CHARLES W. CHESNUTT, born in 1858, is generally acknowledged as the first publicly acclaimed African American novelist. Between 1885 and 1905 he published more than fifty tales and essays, two collections of short stories, a biography of Frederick Douglass, and three novels.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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