The House Behind the Cedars
$30.83
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2004
Summary
Charles Chesnutt’s classic novel, hailed by Werner Sollors as “a pioneering work of racial passing.”
Edited and featuring an introduction and notes from Judith Jackson Fossett.
A riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life, The House Behind the Cedars follows John and Rena Walden, mixed-race siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The siblings travel carefully between Black and white worlds, but their precarious routi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812966169 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0812966163 |
| Author: | Charles Chesnutt, Judith Jackson Fossett |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2004 |
| Weight: | 219g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“A pioneering work about racial passing.” -Werner Sollors, Harvard University
“A pioneering work about racial passing.”—Werner Sollors, Harvard University
About The Author
Charles Chesnutt
Judith Jackson Fossett is an associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She 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.
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