Summary

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 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, novels about passing, the Harlem Renaissance, the black/white divide, and diaspora studies.

Classification

• Dewey Decimal: 813.52

Book Details

• Physical Description: 6.0"x8.9"x0.8"; 1.1 lb; 304 pages
• Edition Info: Paperback; 2009-10-05

Subjects

• Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- African American -- General
• Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- Classics -- General
• Literature & Fiction -- Contemporary
• Literature & Fiction -- General -- General
• Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Special Groups -- African-American Studies

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