There Is Confusion
$32.42
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2020
Summary
A rediscovered classic about how racism and sexism tests the spirit, ambition, and character of three children growing up in Hell’s Kitchen and Harlem, from the literary editor of The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP
With an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins
Set in early-twentieth-century New York City, There Is Confusion tells the story of three Black children—Joanna Marshall, a talented dancer willing to sacrifice everything …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593134429 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593134427 |
| Author: | Jessie Redmon Fauset |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Torchbearers |
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About The Author
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) was the daughter of an African Methodist Episcopal minister. She attended Cornell University, where she studied Latin, Greek, German, and French, and became one of the first Black women elected to Phi Beta Kappa. According to some sources she studied at the Sorbonne before earning her M.A. in French from the University of Pennsylvania. Fauset began contributing to The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP, in 1912. By 1919, she was its literary editor, becoming the first person to publish Langston Hughes’s and Gwendolyn Bennett’s poetry as well as shaping the careers of Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay.
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